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As with anything, feel free to browse the documentation on maven: This guide is very helpfullhelpful.

What is -SNAPSHOT and why should

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-SNAPSHOT is a special marker in maven that tell everybody that this particular piece of code is under development and might change at any time. Opposed to a normal versioned release like '4.0.0', a snapshot is never a stable release. Maven will often try to get a more recent version of a SNAPSHOT during compile. A stable release is fixed, once published there is no changing it anymore. Snapshots are normally used to indicate that a build is made of the HEAD or trunk of a project. Later on this page more about releases using maven.

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In case of 4.2/master, Min suggests on ML: To build non-oss build, you need to first download Vmware 5.1 SDK fromfrom https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/get-download?downloadGroup=VSP510-WEBSDK-510 (Version: 5.1, Release-date: 2012-09-10, Build: 774886) to a temp directory. This is a zip file, unzip file and you will see a vim25.jar in <unzip folder>/SDK/vsphere-ws/java/JAXWS/lib. Place this vim25.jar in deps folder and rename it as vim25_51.jar, then run: deps/install-non-oss.sh to install it into your m2 repo.

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