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What is an artifact and why does Maven need it?
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An artifact can be an archive file or a directory structure that includes the following structural elements: Compilation output for one or more of your modules. Libraries included in module dependencies. Collections of resources (web pages, images, descriptor files, and so on)
Maven's local repository is a directory on the local machine that stores all the project artifacts. When we execute a Maven build, Maven automatically downloads all the dependency jars into the local repository. Usually, this directory is named .
Build artifacts are files produced by a build. Typically, these include distribution packages, WAR files, reports, log files, and so on. When creating a build configuration, you specify the paths to the artifacts of your build on the Configuring General Settings page.
An artifact is a file, usually a JAR, that gets deployed to a Maven repository.
A Maven build produces one or more artifacts, such as a compiled JAR and a "sources" JAR.
Each artifact has a group ID (usually a reversed domain name, like com.example.foo), an artifact ID (just a name), and a version string. The three together uniquely identify the artifact.
A project's dependencies are specified as artifacts.
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