What about the full "Maven Project Module"? Then there's no confusion about
Maven being a modularized Java application.
Intellij could adopt the same convention "Intellij IDEA Project Module".
Delany

On Mon, 5 Aug 2024 at 14:29, Jeff Jensen <jeffjen...@upstairstechnology.com>
wrote:

> Additionally, since a module is part of a product and project is activity
> to change a product, I prefer the term "module" (or even "submodule")
> because they are not "projects" (yes Eclipse and other tools refer to them
> as "projects" but that is arguably a wrong term).  I also would rather
> clarify the module term with each use, Java Module and Maven Module, or use
> the term submodule for Maven modules.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 7:23 AM Tamás Cservenák <ta...@cservenak.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > While I somewhat agree, I think that "Maven module" is clear when used in
> > context, also Maven was there before JPMS ;)
> > And finally, as you pointed out, POM will always have a "module" as well.
> > Hence, I am unsure about the value of this terminology change...
> > Yes, it is longer to type "maven module" and "java module" but it is
> still
> > clear what we talk about ...
> >
> > Thanks
> > T
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 2:14 PM Martin Desruisseaux <
> > martin.desruisse...@geomatys.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In order to avoid confusion between "Maven module" and "Java module", I
> > > suggest to update documentation for using "Maven sub-project" instead
> of
> > > "Maven module". However, the <module> XML elements in the POM would be
> > > unchanged for compatibility reason. There is apparently not so many
> > > places in the documentation that need to be updated. The ones that I
> > > found are part of pull request #1625:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/1625/commits/4bc46b4114396e6025645f3c5dae888f3d386981
> > >
> > >     Martin
> > >
> > >
> >
>

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