Automating upload of artifacts in Nexus using Maven

Am trying to automate the process of uploading an artifact generated by Maven into a Nexus hosted repository (like a maven goal, which will upload the generated jar into a specified repository in Nexus). Is this possible? In the Nexus docs they have talked only about manual uploading.

I also looked at the nexus maven plugins and nothing like this is specified.

Thanks in advance

How do you upload artifacts to Nexus repository?

First load of the Nexus repository manager admin console. The first thing you need to do is provide the Maven group, artifact, version and packaging attributes for the deployment artifact you are about to upload. After doing so, use the Select Artifacts to Upload button to browse to the JAR file of interest.

You have to use mvn deploy to deploy your artifacts via WebDAV (declare the Nexus DAV URL in the distributionManagement section).