Something simple to use and would reuse all the auth/proxy etc data from Maven. Intentionally super-trivial API.
If something more "serious" needed, plugin should probably roll it's own solution.
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https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-7607
* Fix DefaultArtifactManager to allow using both Artifact and Dependency
* Add a TODO for an EventSpy related api
* Add simple string/model conversion on the XmlFactory
* Decouple services creation
* Move services to @Singleton scope
* Add protected constructors as builders should not be created directly
* Fix typos "can not" -> "cannot"
* Add some null checks on build(xx) shortcut methods
* Add a some missing conversion to immutable collections for requests