How to Deploy only the sub-modules using maven deploy?

Question

How do i deploy only the sub-modules of the project? i have a project as;

ProjectA
 -  Submodule B
 - Submodlue C
 - Submodule D 

The submodules are packaged as jar and is deployed to maven repo.how can only the sub -modules be deployed to the maven repository and not the main project?

Answer 1

Put this in module(s)(or module's pom.xml) that you don't want to deploy:

<properties>
  <maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
</properties>

Since this is inherited by submodules, you have to put this in submodules that you do want to deploy:

<properties>
  <maven.deploy.skip>false</maven.deploy.skip>
</properties>

Answer 2

Another suggestion could be doing the following:

mvn deploy -pl SubModuleB