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Comment: project vs product (thanks to discussions with rfscholte)
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This RFC is currently in the DRAFT state. Nothing in this RFC has been agreed or confirmed.

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OPEN QUESTION: do we deploy the newer modelVersion POM as the groupId:artifactId::version::pom or as groupId:artifactId::version:build:pom? The first form ensures that the POM cannot be used as a parent by modelVersion 4.0.0 projects as they will blow up immediately, however there has been an established practice of using <packaging>pom</packaging> for projects that produce non-standard artifacts and want to opt-out of the standard lifecycle binding, and thus we would break consumption of those "side" artifacts by legacy clients. Perhaps the solution is to follow the second form (i.e. it gets deployed with <classifier>build</classifier> and either put a Maven enforcer execution into the modelVersion 4.0.0 POM or use the <prerequisites> tag to try and at least alert that the parent is invalid.

Project Dependency Trees

<project> element

The project dependency trees model consists of a top level <project> tag and three types of immediate children elements:

Open Questions

  • Hervé Boutemy: Should we move away from the term Project for this document but use Product, as Software Product in Agile?
    Issue: a "project" is either a "Top Level Project" (ex: Maven), either a "mono-module project" (ex: shared-utils), either one "module of a multi-module project" (ex: maven-artifact module of Maven core)
    And even see Wikipedia "Project (disambiguation)" article: "Project, a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service"
    A build file (pom.xml when used by Maven to build an artifact) or description of attributes of an artifact (pom.xml when in repository) is clearly not temporary: in agile methodology, this issue has been fixed by having a product, with a product manager.

Project Dependency Trees

<project> element

The project dependency trees model consists of a top level <project> tag and three types of immediate children elements:

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<project modelVersion="..." groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="...">
  <generator ...
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<project modelVersion="..." groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="...">
  <generator .../>
  <information .../>
  <license .../>
  <artifacts .../>
</project>

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The artifacts element consists of details of all the artifacts produced by the project. The artifacts are partitioned by platformId.

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<artifacts [platformId="..."]>
  <artifact .../>
</artifacts>

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The artifact element consists of the details of a specific artifact produced by the project.

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<artifact type="..." [classifier="..."]>
  <information .../>
  <license .../>
  <component .../>
  <provides .../>
  <requires .../>
  <supports .../>
</artifact>

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The component element consists of hints to the consumer of type specific components that are present within the artifact for consideration during conflict resolution.

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<component id="..."/>

There is one mandatory element:

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The provides element indicates that this artifact embeds equivalent content to the named dependency

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<provides groupId="..." artifactId="..."

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 [platformId="..."] [version="..."] range="..." type="..."

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 [classifier="..."]/>

The following are mandatory elements

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The requires element indicates a mandatory transitive dependency.

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<requires groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." range="..." type="..." [classifier="..."] [modelVersion="..."]>

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  <component .../>

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  <license .../>

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  <provides .../>

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  <requires .../>

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  <supports .../>

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  <including>
    ...
  </including>
  <excluding>
    ...
  </excluding>
</requires>

The following are mandatory elements:

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  • platformId attribute - the platformId of the dependency
  • classifier attribute - the classifier of the dependency
  • modelVersion attribute - if the dependency's Project Dependency Tree uses a modelVersion less than or equal to the modelVersion of the root project tag in this Project Dependency Tree then this attribute must be omitted, otherwise the tag will contain the modelVersion of the dependency's Project Dependency Tree. The presence of this attribute is an indicator to the consumer that the contained elements were the result of an XSLT transformation of the dependency's tree and thus, if the consumer understands this newer modelVersion then a more correct view of the dependency tree could be obtained by fetching and parsing the dependency's Project Dependency Tree directly and substituting the parsed contents.
  • license elements - there can be any number of these, they reflect the license terms of the dependency as detailed from the dependency's tree.
  • component elements - there can be any number of these. If present they are a hint to the consumer about type specific components that are present within the dependency and that may need to be considered during conflict resolution. For example, with a JAR artifact, the components may be Java 9+ module identifiers. Consumers may ignore the component elements if they choose.
  • provides elements - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that this dependency embeds equivalent content to the named dependency. The exact meaning of "embeds" is dependent on the type of artifact and the type of dependency.
  • requires elements - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that the dependency has a mandatory transitive dependency.
  • supports element - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that the dependency has an optional transitive dependency.  
  • including element - there can be at most one of these. If present it indicates that the dependency has been augmented by its consumer to "correct" the dependency tree.
  • excluding element - there can be at most one of these. If present it indicates that the dependency has been augmented by its consumer to "correct" the dependency tree.

<supports> element

The supports element indicates an optional transitive dependency.

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<supports groupId="..." artifactId="..."

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 [platformId="..."]

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 [version="..."] range="..." type="..."

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 [classifier="..."]/>

The following are mandatory elements

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  • platformId attribute - the platformId of the dependency
  • version attribute - the version of the dependency that was resolved at build time and is the recommended default version of the dependency to use. 
  • classifier attribute - the classifier of the dependency

Example

The following is a pseudo-example of a Project Dependency Tree

<project modelVersion="..." groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="...">

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  •  attribute - the classifier of the dependency

<including> element

The including element indicates that a dependency has been augmented by its immediate consumer.

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<including>
  <component .../>
  <provides .../>
  <requires .../>
  <supports .../>
</including>

There are no mandatory elements

The following are optional elements:

  • component elements - there can be any number of these. If present they are a hint to the consumer about type specific components that are present within the dependency and that may need to be considered during conflict resolution. For example, with a JAR artifact, the components may be Java 9+ module identifiers. Consumers may ignore the component elements if they choose.
  • provides elements - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that this dependency embeds equivalent content to the named dependency. The exact meaning of "embeds" is dependent on the type of artifact and the type of dependency.
  • requires elements - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that the dependency has a mandatory transitive dependency.
  • supports element - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that the dependency has an optional transitive dependency.  

<excluding> element

The including element indicates that a dependency has been augmented by its immediate consumer.

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<excluding>
  <component .../>
  <provides .../>
  <requires .../>
  <supports .../>
</excluding>

There are no mandatory elements

The following are optional elements:

  • component elements - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that this dependency and its transitive dependency tree - from the point of view of the immediate parent - should have the corresponding <component> elements expunged. The id can be either exact match or * style wildcard matches.
  • provides elements - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that this dependency and its transitive dependency tree - from the point of view of the immediate parent - should have the corresponding <provides> elements expunged. The groupIdartifactId, etc coordinates can be either exact matches or * style wildcard matches.
  • requires elements - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that this dependency and its transitive dependency tree - from the point of view of the immediate parent - should have the corresponding <requires> elements expunged. The groupIdartifactId, etc coordinates can be either exact matches or * style wildcard matches.
  • supports element - there can be any number of these. If present they indicate that this dependency and its transitive dependency tree - from the point of view of the immediate parent - should have the corresponding <supports> elements expunged. The groupIdartifactId, etc coordinates can be either exact matches or * style wildcard matches.  

Example

The following is a pseudo-example of a Project Dependency Tree

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 <project modelVersion="..." groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="...">
    <generator name="Apache Maven" version="5.0.0" url="http://maven.apache.org"/>
    <information>
        <!-- container for descriptive information -->
        [<name>...</name>]
        [<description>...</description>]
        ...
    </information>
    <license spdx="..."/>
    <license spdx="..."/>
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    <license spdx="..."/>
    <artifacts [platformId="..."]>
        <artifact type="..." [classifier="..."]>
            <information>
                <!-- optional element if need to override root level information for specific artifacts -->
            </information>
            <!-- 
              components are internal packaging constructs used by the packaging type but requiring more general validation
              e.g. for Java 9+ the ids could be the module ids if we wanted to validate that the module ids were unique in the
              effective tree.
            -->
            <component id="..."/>
            <component id="..."/>
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            <component id="..."/>
            <!--
              If the artifact has a different set of licenses from those defined at the project level, we define the licenses
              of this artifact here. Otherwise we defer to the licenses defined at the top level of the project.
              licensing is a top level concern, and legitimately can vary per artifact. Let's not solve license compatibility, 
              rather leverage https://spdx.org/
            -->
            <license spdx="..."/>
            <license spdx="..."/>
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            <license spdx="..."/>
            <!--
              provides is a marker that we have duplication of content. This could be because we are much like the many servlet-api jar
              files where there are many GAV's of the same javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0 thus we could have the case where
 
              org.jboss.spec.javax.servlet:jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec:jar:1.0.2.Final PROVIDES javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0
              org.jboss.spec.javax.servlet:jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec:jar:1.0.1.Final PROVIDES javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0
              org.jboss.spec.javax.servlet:jboss-servlet-api_3.0_spec:jar:1.0.0.Final PROVIDES javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0
              org.mortbay.jetty:servlet-api-3.0:jar:7.0.0pre2 PROVIDES javax.servlet:servlet-api:3.0
 
              similarly
 
              org.slf4j:log4j-over-slf4j:jar:1.7.21 PROVIDES log4j:log4j:[1.0,2)
 
              The consumer of the tree can then decide if/when/how to collapse redundant nodes as they see fit.
 
              TODO: decide optionality of version and range attributes
            -->
            <provides groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]>
                <!-- no elements here as we have "rebundled" hence implicitly promoted up one level-->
            </provides>
            <provides groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
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            <provides groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>
            <!--
              

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requires are the mandatory dependencies. This is effectively a recursive artifact

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 where the GAV is not inherited and
              where we have discarded the information section. If you want those details, fetch that project's dependencies trees.
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            <requires groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." range="..." type="..." [classifier="..."]>
                <component id="..."/>
                <license spdx:id="..."/>

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              supports are the optional dependencies. We list them here to aid in conflict resolution. We do not include a nested tree
              as a consumer would only pull them in if the consumer already has its own a requires for them, so we really only
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              TODO: decide optionality of range attribute
              TODO: decide if we want a version attribute 
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            </including>
            <excluding>
                <component id="..."/>
                <provides groupId="..." artifactId="..." [platformId="..."] version="..." [range="..."] type="..." [classifier="..."]/>

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        </artifact>

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        </artifact>

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 </artifacts>

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    <!-- if the project does not specify a platformId then we can include additional platform details that were part of the atomic deployment -->

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    <artifacts platformId="...">

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    </artifacts>

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    <artifacts platformId="...">

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    </artifacts>

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</project>

Constructing a Project Dependency Trees model

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Here is a draft XML schema:

TODO:

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Add the including and excluding elements to the schema

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 <xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" >

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  <xsd:simpleType name=”coordinate”>

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    <xsd:restriction base=”xsd:string”>

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      <!-- TODO add pattern for groupId/artifactId/platformId/version/type/classifier valid values -->

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    </xsd:restriction>

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  </xsd:simpleType>

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  <xs:element name="project">

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;project&gt;</code> element is the root of the project

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        dependency trees.

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="modelVersion" type="xs:string"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="groupId" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="artifactId" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="version" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:all>

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        <xs:element ref="generator" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>

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        <xs:element ref="information" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>

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        <xs:element ref="license" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="artifacts" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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      </xs:all>

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    </xs:complexType>

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  </xs:element>

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  <xs:element name="generator">

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;generator&gt;</code> element identifies the build tool

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        responsible for creating this document

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="name" type="xs:string"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="version" type="xs:string"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="url" type="xs:string"/>

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    </xs:complexType>

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  </xs:element>

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  <xs:element name="information">

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;information&gt;</code> element is a container for 

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        descriptive information about either all the artifacts in a project or 

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        a specific artifact.

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:all>

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        <xs:element name="name" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="1"/>

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        <xs:element name="description" type="xs:string" maxOccurs="1"/>

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        <!-- TODO add additional elements -->

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      </xs:all>

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    </xs:complexType>

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  </xs:element>

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  <xs:element name="license" xmlns:spdx="http://spdx.org/rdf/terms#">

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;license&gt;</code> element defines one of the licenses

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        under which the artifacts are made available. Where a license is 

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        attached to the <code>&lt;project&gt;</code> element this defines the 

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        default licenses for all artifacts in the project. Where a license is 

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        attached to an <code>&lt;artifact&gt;</code> element this signifies 

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        that the specific artifact is covered by the 

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        <code>&lt;license&gt;</code> elements defined within that 

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        <code>&lt;artifact&gt;</code> element. Licenses are identified using 

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        the <a href="http://spdx.org">SPDX</

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a> identifiers

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     </xs:documentation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="spdx" type="xs:string"/>

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    </xs:complexType>

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  </xs:element>

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  <xs:element name="artifacts">

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;artifacts&gt;</code> element is a container for 

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        details of artifacts. When the <code>&lt;artifacts&gt;</code> attribute

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        is missing, then the artifacts listed are not platform specific.

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        The <code>&lt;artifacts&gt;</code> must be unique with respect to their

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        <code>&lt;platformId&gt;</code>, i.e. it cannot be repeated.

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        If the <code>&lt;project&gt;</code> element has a 

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        <code>&lt;platformId&gt;</code> then there must be only one

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        <code>&lt;artifacts&gt;</code> element and it must have the matching

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        <code>&lt;platformId&gt;</code>.

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:sequence>

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        <xs:element ref="artifact" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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      </xs:sequence>

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    </xs:complexType>

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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        The <code>&lt;artifact&gt;</code> element represents an artifact

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        associated with the project.

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="type" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="classifier" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:all>

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        <xs:element ref="information" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="1"/>

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        <xs:element ref="license" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="component" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="provides" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="requires" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="supports" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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      </xs:all>

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    </xs:complexType>

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  </xs:element>

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  <xs:element name="component">

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;component&gt;</code> element represents a type specific

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        component that is present within the artifact. For example a "jar"

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        artifact might list the Java 9+ modules that are included within

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        the "jar". Other file types can use the component according to the

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        conventions of that file type. The component information is intended

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        to assist build time tools in conflict detection when resolving

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        the composite dependency tree according to the build tools

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        dependency resolution strategy.

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="id" type="xs:string"/>

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    </xs:complexType>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;provides&gt;</code> element represents a semantic

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        equivalence with another artifact. There are several ways the element

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            When an artifact directly includes the same content as another 

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            project's artifacts, for example there are some "jar" files that 

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            will embed other artifacts to produce a so-called "uber-jar".

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          </li>

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            When an artifact re-implements the API of another project's 

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            artifact. For example: log4j-over-slf4j reimplements the log4j

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          </li> 

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            When a set of projects are co-operating to provide multiple

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            implementations of a "virtual" project artifact. For example:

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            slf4j-log4j, slf4j-jul, and logback could all be considered

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            as providing a slf4j-impl virtual project artifact. There would

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            be no actual project at the slf4j-impl coordinates, but

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            slf4j-api could declare a requirement on the "virtual" project

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            artifact in order to ensure that an implementation is available

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            to consumers of the API

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="groupId" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="artifactId" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="version" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="range" type="xs:string"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="type" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="classifier" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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    </xs:complexType>

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  </xs:element>

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  <xs:element name="requires">

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;requires&gt;</code> element represents a hard dependency

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        on another project's artifact. If the <code>&lt;version&gt;</code>

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        attribute is missing then this indicates that the dependency is

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        a virtual dependency, and there must be no child elements.

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        The <code>&lt;modelVersion&gt;</code> attribute must only be present

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        if the dependent project's <code>&lt;modelVersion&gt;</code> is newer

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        than the <code>&lt;modelVersion&gt;</code> specified on the root 

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        <code>&lt;project&gt;</code> element. The presence of this element

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        indicates that the child information was the result of an XSLT

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        transformation of a newer <code>&lt;modelVersion&gt;</code> and

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        indicates that a build tool understanding the newer 

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        <code>&lt;modelVersion&gt;</code> may want to fetch the dependencies

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        tree and process it directly in order to obtain the most correct

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        model of the dependency.

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="groupId" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="artifactId" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="version" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="range" type="xs:string"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="type" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="classifier" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="modelVersion" type="xs:string" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:all>

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        <xs:element ref="license" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="component" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="provides" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="requires" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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        <xs:element ref="supports" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"/>

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      </xs:all>

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    </xs:complexType>

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  </xs:element>

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  <xs:element name="supports">

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    <xs:annotation>

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      <xs:documentation source="version">5.0.0+</xs:documentation>

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      <xs:documentation source="description">

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        The <code>&lt;supports&gt;</code> element represents a soft dependency

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        on another project's artifact. This element is provided in order to

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        allow build time tools to perform conflict resolution when determining

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        the effective tree from multiple dependencies.

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      </xs:documentation>

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    </xs:annotation>

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    <xs:complexType>

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      <xs:attribute name="groupId" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="artifactId" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="platformId" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="version" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="range" type="xs:string"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="type" type="coordinate"/>

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      <xs:attribute name="classifier" type="coordinate" use="optional"/>

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    </xs:complexType>

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  </xs:element>

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</xs:schema>