What does usages mean in mvnrepository.com

Question

While searching for maven dependencies on mvnrepository.com, it shows one column with usages. What does it mean? ie https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-context when you click on this link it will show you different jars with version number and also it shows you one column called usages. Usages contains some numbers.

Answer 1

If you click through the 'usages' button you see the projects that are also listed (ie in maven central) which have that project as a dependency. If you pick a project from the 'usages' to click into and then click on the most recent version and look at the 'dependencies' section then you find the project that you started from in that list somewhere. At least I suspect it's based on the dependencies of the most recent version but it could be that it's used in a/any version (haven't been able to determine that from my clicking around).

Answer 2

Did you click on the number and see the information it shows you?

i think it means how many mvnrepository.com maven project dependenied it

Answer 3

When I click on the library, It appears to be Used by (numeric) artifacts.

So my guess is, to put it simply I think it's the number of other libraries that used that library.

As the people above have already explained.