Aliases

alias <group>:<artifact> as <property.name>;

By default, a resolved version is published as the property <artifactId>.version:

Artifact	Default property
com.google.guava:guava	guava.version
org.immutables:value	value.version
com.github.spullara.mustache.java:compiler	compiler.version

Short artifact ids like value and compiler make poor property names, and two artifacts from different groups can share an id. An alias sets the name instead:

resolve highest org.immutables:value:[2.10.0,3.0.0);
resolve highest com.github.spullara.mustache.java:compiler:[0.9.0,1.0.0);

alias org.immutables:value as immutables.value.version;
alias com.github.spullara.mustache.java:compiler as mustache.compiler.version;

The POM can then refer to ${immutables.value.version}.

An alias applies to the artifact’s resolve requests and to its resolved, locked, deprecated and blacklisted records in the same script. Declaring two aliases for the same artifact is an error.