pom.yaml Reference

Here is a complete list of property name and their meaning in pom.yaml. The absolute minimal properties are those that represent Maven coordinate. That is, group, artifactId and version. However, individual pom.yaml does not need to have all three, as long as the merged result of multiple files has all this information. If the merged result missed artifactId, the project name will be used as default.

Name	Meaning
variant	Optional variant name for the POM fragment. See POM variant section of this guide.
group	The group of the coordinate of the component. Must present in merged result.
artifactId	The artefact Id of coordinate of the component. If it is not specified, the default is the project name.
version	The version of the coordinate of the component. Must present in merged result.
packaging	The format of the artefact. Can be, but not limited to, jar, aar, war.
licenses	A collection of licenses
developers	A collection of developers
contributors	A collection of contributors
organization	The organization that the component belongs to.
web	The website for the component.
scm	The version control system for the component.
plugin	Definition of Gradle plugin publishing

licenses

licenses:- name: Apache-2.0  dist: repo

The url field will be filled automatically by the plugin with the value http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt.

Predefined license types included:

• Apache-2.0
• BSD-3-Clause
• MIT
• GPLv3
• LGPLv3

Name	Meaning
name	Name of license.
url	URL to the full text of license.
dist	repo or manual
comment	Additional comment to the license.

See this for a full description of the block.

developers

developers block may specify multiple developers participated in developing the component.

Name	Meaning
id	ID of the developer. It is an arbitrary ID that helps to organize people in an organization.
name	Name of the person.
email	Email address of the person.
organization	The organization that the person belongs to.
timeZone	The time zone that the person is in.
url	URL of information about the person.

contributors

A collection of person that contributed to the project. The format is identical to the developers block.

organization

Name	Meaning
name	Name of the organization.
url	URL to further information of the organization.

scm

Name	Meaning
url	URL to the source code control system. If repoType and repoName is given. This field is automatically filled as https://{repoType}/{repoName}
connection	The string to identify the project in the source code control system. The format depends on the repoType. It is usually a URL to the source code repository. Normally access to the repository pointed by this value is read-only.
developerConnection	Similar to connection, but specify the repository that requires write access.
repoType	Usually the domain name of the service, like github.com, gitlab.com
repoName	Usually the path after repoType represents the user account and repository name of the source code control system. For example, hkhc/jarbird.
issueType	The type of issue management system. It could be the same as repoType for cases like github.com.
issueUrl	URL to the issue management system for this component.
tag	Further information about the component in the source code management system.

web

Name	Meaning
url	URL to the website of this component.
description	Description of the website.

plugin

plugin block is only needed to publish the Gradle plugin.

Name	Meaning
id	Plugin ID used to declare the use of the plugin.
displayName	The name of the plugin to be shown in Gradle Plugin Portal.
description	Description of the plugin.
implementationClass	The fully qualified class name
tags	Multiple values of tag string to be sent to Gradle Plugin Portal.