MergeStrategies (Plexus :: Component Metadata (Maven Plugin) (deprecated) 2.2.0-SNAPSHOT API)

java.lang.Object
- org.codehaus.plexus.metadata.merge.support.MergeStrategies

```
public class MergeStrategies
extends Object
```
Collection of available Merge Strategies.
TODO: Revisit and factor Mergeable.merge(Mergeable) to use a MergeStrategy.

Author:

Rahul Thakur

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static MergeStrategy`	`DEEP`	`MergeStrategy` implementation wherein the elements are merged down to the deepest available `Mergeable` instance in the DOM tree.
`static MergeStrategy`	`SHALLOW`	`MergeStrategy` implementation wherein only the element on which the merge operation is called is 'merged'.

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

MergeStrategies()

Method Summary
- Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
  clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Field Detail
  - DEEP
```
public static final MergeStrategy DEEP
```
    MergeStrategy implementation wherein the elements are merged down to the deepest available Mergeable instance in the DOM tree.
  - SHALLOW
```
public static final MergeStrategy SHALLOW
```
    MergeStrategy implementation wherein only the element on which the merge operation is called is 'merged'. The merge does not traverse the DOM tree any further.
- Constructor Detail
  - MergeStrategies
```
public MergeStrategies()
```