Is there any document about the metadata? I want to generate this file myself, so I must know it exactly.Thank you
2008/9/17 Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Maven generates it on deployment. Repository managers can generally > create or repair them - though I've only done this with Archiva it is > probably a feature of Artifactory too. > > They are used by Maven for: > * determining the results of version ranges, and what the latest > release is (inside the artifact's directory) > * determining what snapshot to use if you use build numbering (inside > a given version directory) > * other repository information such as a list of available plugins in a > group > > Maven will work without them with the exception of the above > functionality, but generally falls back to something that makes sense. > > Cheers > Brett > > 2008/9/17 陈思淼 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 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> > >> > > > > > > -- > Brett Porter > Blog: http://blogs.exist.com/bporter/ >
