What are the maven coordinates?

Maven coordinates are used to uniquely identify an artifact in the maven repository (groupId:artifactId:version). It is similar to an IP address which is used to identify the system in the internet.

 

Example

<dependency>
	<groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
	<artifactId>gson</artifactId>
	<version>2.9.0</version>
</dependency>

 

Three coordinates of maven dependency.

a.   groupId: Unique to an organization. In general, an organization reverse name is used ad group id. groupId can be inherited from parent pom.

b.   artifactId: Represents the project name. Ex: gson

c.    version: specifies the version of artifact. version can be inherited from parent pom.

 

Reference

https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#maven-coordinates

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