Maven artifact and groupId naming

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Weirdness is highly subjective, I just suggest to follow the official recommendation:

Guide to naming conventions on groupId, artifactId and version

  • groupId will identify your project uniquely across all projects,
    so we need to enforce a naming schema.
    It has to follow the package name
    rules, what means that has to be at
    least as a domain name you control,
    and you can create as many subgroups
    as you want. Look at More information
    about package names    .

    eg. org.apache.maven, org.apache.commons

    A good way to determine the granularity of the groupId is to use
    the project structure. That is, if the
    current project is a multiple module
    project, it should append a new
    identifier to the parent’s groupId.

    eg. org.apache.maven, org.apache.maven.plugins,
    org.apache.maven.reporting

  • artifactId is the name of the jar without version. If you created it
    then you can choose whatever name you
    want with lowercase letters and no
    strange symbols. If it’s a third party
    jar you have to take the name of the
    jar as it’s distributed.

    eg. maven, commons-math

  • version if you distribute it then you can choose any typical
    version with numbers and dots (1.0,
    1.1, 1.0.1, …). Don’t use dates as they are usually associated with
    SNAPSHOT (nightly) builds. If it’s a
    third party artifact, you have to use
    their version number whatever it is,
    and as strange as it can look.

    eg. 2.0, 2.0.1, 1.3.1

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