How to deploy jar artifacts directly from a maven repository to appserver specific directories

Question

I have JDBC driver dependencies (e.g. h2, mysql ..) which have to be copied under ${jboss.home}/common/lib before it is used by my EAR application. What would be the best way to directly copy from a maven repository into the above location instead of doing a manual copy. I would not prefer to store copies of the drivers as part of my SVN.

Note: I currently specify this as a maven dependency and copy this artifact from the local repository, not sure if this is the best way to do solve this.

Answer 1

One way to do this would be to use the Maven Dependency Plugin and its dependency:copy goal that allows to copy a list of artifacts from the repository to defined locations. See the Copying specific artifacts example.