The way Maven 2 was designed, the repository system is meant to be sort of
opaque to outside systems (at least, that's the result of the design). The
finalName was meant to be used when exposing artifacts (either from the
repository, or freshly-built) to the outside world, generally by using a
maven plugin to do so.
As an example, where the maven binary assembly artifact might exist in the
repository as: maven-core-2.0.4-bin.tar.gz, when used as a constituent of
another assembly, it would land in the maven-2.0.4 directory (I think, can't
remember the exact finalName on that one). So, the plugins are responsible
for resolving an artifact from the repository (which could be in any format,
even a database), and presenting it to the outside world for consumption
with the correct filename.
I'm sure that's not convenient in all cases, and might present some
complication associated with creating a mapping facade for the remote
repository artifacts, but this is currently the only way Maven can keep
track of what's in that repository without introducing ambiguity or
unreasonable performance penalties. Maybe it'll change for 2.x, but there
are no plans to do so right now.
Does that help?
-john
On 9/2/06, Wendell Beckwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am working on creating a plugin to specifically do Eclipse plugin builds
and OSGi bundles as a consequence that all plugins are bundles. I have
run
into a problem where some parts of eclipse doesn't care what the name of a
jar file is as long as it's contents is correct. Then there is the
Eclipse
Update Manager which takes the plugin identifier (artifactId) and version
(versionId) and expects to download a file of
"plugins/${artifactId}_${version}.jar. I can set the <finalName> element
in
my pom to be <finalName>${artifactId}_${version}</finalName> but only the
jar produced in my project's target folder is named correctly. What gets
installed/deployed to the repo is the typical ${artifactId}-${version}
format. What is the logic of having a final name that is only local to
me?
Wb
