12.5 Artifacter tool

12.5.1 Introduction

Daisy makes intensive use of the artifact concept. Both Maven and the Daisy Runtime make use of these artifacts.

Since there are a lot of different Maven POMs and Daisy Runtime classloader definitions, it is useful to have some help in managing these. For example when you want to find out which projects use commons-collections or update all of them to a newer version. Or you want to augment the version number of all Daisy artifacts.

Rather than doing this manually, which is boring and error-prone, we have a tool called the "artifacter" which does this.