- It is added to the project folder name
- Indicates the unique base name of the primary artifact being generated by this project.
- The primary artifact for a project is typically a JAR file.
- Secondary artifacts like source bundles also use the artifactId as part of their final name.
- A typical artifact produced by Maven would have the form <artifactId>-<version>.<extension>
- For example
- Myapp-1.0.jar
- Another example:
- Sample-app-v1.0.jar