previously, we use a tool combine with maven1.0 and ant to manage our build process. now we decide to transfer the platform to maven 2.0, the major problem the artifacts we made by our own format, thanks to artifactory<http://www.jfrog.org/sites/artifactory/latest/> , we can use it function "import from path", first transfer our artifacts into maven's format and generate the pom.xml,but there is problem, when deploy a SNAPSHOT, the maven will generate a maven-metadata.xml to describe the artifact's information, can anyone tell me how maven generate this metadata.xml escpecially what's this file means?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <metadata> <groupId>com.mycompany.notify</groupId> > <artifactId>notify</artifactId> <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <versioning> > <versions> <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <version>1.2-SNAPSHOT</version> > </versions> <lastUpdated>20080917020637</lastUpdated> </versioning> > </metadata> >
