Can I include the mvn deploy:deploy-file in the pom or settings.xml instead of cli goal

Question

I need to deploy a custom jar to Artifactory along with the jar generated from my Java project. Currently the only method I can find is through command line goal using:

mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=<group-id> \   -DartifactId=<artifact-id> \   -Dversion=<version> \   -Dpackaging=<type-of-packaging> \   -Dfile=<path-to-file> \   -Durl=<url-of-the-repository-to-deploy> 

Is there a way of including this in the pom file? As a plugin or something?

Answer 1

Sure. Just define an execution of the maven-deploy-plugin:deploy-file goal bound to the deploy phase, configured with your values. When deploying your project, this execution will be invoked and the JAR will be deployed.

<plugin>     <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>     <version>2.8.2</version>     <executions>         <execution>             <id>deploy-file</id>             <phase>deploy</phase>             <goals>                 <goal>deploy-file</goal>             </goals>             <configuration>                 <file><!-- path-to-file --></file>                 <url><!-- url-of-the-repository-to-deploy --></url>                 <groupId><!-- group-id --></groupId>                 <artifactId><!-- artifact-id --></artifactId>                 <version><!-- version --></version>                 <packaging><!-- type-of-packaging --></packaging>             </configuration>         </execution>     </executions> </plugin> 

Note that you will probably need to add a repositoryId also. This is the server id to map on the <id> under the <server> section of the settings.xml.