The Maven Artifact Transfer Component is intended as an API to install, deploy and resolving artifacts in Maven 3.
The comparison will show the differences between a dependency, artifact and a maven project.
The install project part will show how to this component to make an install of an existing project which makes the handling within plugins much easier.
Current State Of The Component Currently this shared component has not yet reached the final 1.0.0 version state which means the interfaces can change.