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Guillaume Nodet updated MNG-8609:
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Component/s: API
> Dependency is not an Artifact
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> Key: MNG-8609
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-8609
> Project: Maven
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: API
> Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold
> Priority: Blocker
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> org.apache.maven.api.Dependency extends org.apache.maven.api.Artifact. This
> violates the OO principal that inheritance represents an is-A relation. A
> dependency is not an artifact. Arguably it has an artifact. However,
> artifacts are nodes in the graph while dependencies are the arcs. These
> aren't the same thing and mixing them up is a common source of confusion.
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