How do I exclude the sources jar in mvn deploy?

Question

When I run "mvn deploy:deploy", maven deploys 4 jar files to my internal remote repository.

They are:

[module-name]-1.jar
[module-name]-1.pom
[module-name]-1-sources.jar
[module-name]-1-tests.jar

There are actually more files, such as md5 and sha1 files, being deployed. But for simplicity, I just skip these files here.

Is there any way to exclude [module-name]-1-sources.jar from the deployment process?

One way I can think of is to use "mvn deploy:deploy-file", which allows me to pinpoint which jar to deploy. But since I have a few dozen modules to deploy, it'll be nice if I can configure the deployment file exclusion in pom.xml. Otherwise, I'll have to write a script to deploy.

Thanks,
Richard

Answer 1

As of version 2.2 of the maven-source-plugin you can skip source generation with a config option without having to put the plugin in a profile in your parent pom:

  <!-- Do not generate a source jar -->
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.1</version>
    <configuration>
      <skipSource>true</skipSource>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

Answer 2

If you don't want modify your POM, you can skip sources jar creation by adding an enviroment variable to command line:

-Dsource.skip (for maven-source-plugin up to version 2.4, see 2.4 doc)

or

-Dmaven.source.skip (for maven-source-plugin version 3.0.0+, see 3.0.1 doc or the latest one)