Not at present. I would recommend using the Maven libraries themselves
to modify the file. Youll find all of this in maven-artifact.

- Brett

2008/9/17 陈思淼 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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/
>>
>



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