Publishing Artifacts to a Maven Repo

Starting with the 0.9.1-SNAPSHOT level of the code, the top project POM is setup to deploy SNAPSHOT and Release artifacts to the Sonatype OSS Repository by using the following build options:

• mvn clean deploy -Prelease

For SNAPSHOT builds, the artifacts will only be hosted off of the Sonatype repo and will require other projects to add a reference to the repository in their POMs -

        <repositories>
            <repository>
                <id>agimatec-snapshots</id>
                <name>Sonatype OSS Repository</name>
                <url>http://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/agimatec-snapshots</url>
                <layout>default</layout>
                <snapshots>
                    <enabled>true</enabled>
                    <updatePolicy>daily</updatePolicy>
                    <checksumPolicy>ignore</checksumPolicy>
                </snapshots>
                <releases>
                    <enabled>false</enabled>
                </releases>
            </repository>
        </repositories>

Once we have an official release, the artifacts will be synch'ed from the Sonatype server to Maven Central.

Maven Setup

The in-depth details can be found on the Sonatype wiki page describing the Sonatype OSS Repository, but we'll include the basics below.

Edit/create your maven settings file (.m2/settings.xml) with a new server profile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

    <servers>
        . . .
        <server>
            <!-- Sonatype Nexus settings -->
            <id>agimatec-snapshots</id>
            <username>sonatype_uid</username>
            <password>sonatype_pwd</password>
        </server>
        <server>
            <!-- Sonatype Nexus settings -->
            <id>agimatec-releases</id>
            <username>sonatype_uid</username>
            <password>sonatype_pwd</password>
        </server>
    </servers>
</settings>

Creating a Sonatype Nexus Account

Have one of the existing project members who have an account submit a request as described at Sonatype OSS Repository, which basically involves creating a JIRA issue.