An artifact can refer to:
An artifact is also known as:
They are usually stored in a repository
Functional/Definition artifacts:
Process of development artifacts:
Example with maven and the gpg plugin
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>sign-artifacts</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>sign</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<keyname>${gpg.keyname}</keyname>
<passphraseServerId>${gpg.keyname}</passphraseServerId>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>