Maven Repository Metadata Model

This is strictly the model for Maven Repository Metadata, so really just plain objects.

Maven Repository Metadata is available in directories representing:

an un-versioned artifact: it gives informations about available versions of the artifact,
a snapshot artifact: it gives precise information on the snapshot,
a group containing Maven plugins artifacts: it gives informations on plugins available in this group.

The metadata file name is:

maven-metadata.xml in a remote repository,
maven-metadata-<repo-id>.xml in a local repository, for metadata from a repository with repo-id identifier.

The following are generated from this model:

Java sources with Reader and Writers for the Xpp3 XML parser, to read and write maven-metadata(-*).xml files
A Descriptor Reference