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What steps does maven take to search for artifact files. For example, it seems like it searches for a module file, then pom, then jar or aar? My quesiton stems from the fact that I've noticed that a lot of 3rd party artifact repository don't present you with an html tree to browse, so it looks like it's a guess and check sort of system.

FWIW, ive taken a look at MavenResolver.java and MavenResolverTest to try to make sense of it, but it seems like maybe there are some docs that could help me understand how gralde knows what files to grab?

<https://maven.apache.org/repositories/metadata.html>

if you have a specific version then Gradle can just fetch the POM for it directly. based on the contents, it knows whether there is a GMM and how the artifact is packaged