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I think we still need to more precisely define "dependency type" but this is a good start.
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| An Artifact is "anything" (any file) that can be addressed using its coordinates, and Maven downloads, installs or | ||
| deploys for you. Most of them are POMs and JARs but | ||
| an artifact can be really anything. A very important thing about artifacts is that they have coordinates, | ||
| An artifact is a file (more precisely, a sequence of bytes) that can be addressed using its coordinates |
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Perhaps something like
"A file is a sequence of bytes addressed by a path in a file system. A resource is a sequence of bytes addressed by a URL. An artifact is a sequence of bytes addressed by Maven coordinates."
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I think we still need to more precisely define "dependency type" but this is a good start.