I suppose you're talking about the "course-management" bit. That's just the way they named things. You could just as well have the following: <dependency>

I suppose you're talking about the "course-management" bit. That's just the way they named things. You could just as well have the following: <dependency> <groupId>net.java.dev</groupId> <artifactId>jvyaml</artifactId> <version>0.2.1</version> </dependency> The artifactId is the name of the jar file.