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Lack of standard naming for standalone server JAR files

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Description

There's a longstanding convention of naming the uber JAR files for Selenium server releases as "selenium-server-standalone-<version>.jar". Initially, this project followed this convention, which enabled parameterized handling of access to these non-Maven artifacts. With the transition to Selenium 3, however, this convention has been abandoned. To make things worse, these releases aren't even consistent with each other... you started out with names that looked like classified artifacts ("with-dependencies"), then altered the classifier ("jar-with-dependencies"). Why not just stick with the established naming convention?

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No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating the release configuration that produces the standalone server JARs and compare the existing artifact names; done means the releases consistently use the established selenium-server-standalone-.jar convention.

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Tech stack
java
Domain
release
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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