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

Deploy plugin maven site:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/index.html

Based on what I am reading there, it looks like you can exclude modules from deployment, but not individual files - at least not yet.

If you look at the goals page:

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/plugin-info.html

it does not show any specific configurations of the plugin for what you are looking for. As the goals page is made from the plugin class, by looking at the annotations, I would say that they do not have the ability.

One thing you could do would be to make a different build that does not create the jars you don't want created - i.e. make a different assembly package or the like for that build, and have the build be run when you are trying to deploy specific packages.

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Edit: koppernickus has a full description of this, I would recommend you see his post.

Answer 2

Maven mvn deploy:deploy deploys all produced artifacts during maven process (default lifecycle). To not deploy [module-name]-1-sources.jar you should simply(?) not produce one. If you are using maven-source-plugin to attach source files just don't use it anymore.

If this is not the case you are experiencing please provide more details:

1. how do you generate [module-name]-1-sources.jar artifact (which plugin generate this artifact?)
2. why do you need to generate sources but you don't need deploy them to the repository?

Answer 3

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

Don't generate sources if you don't want to deploy them. So either remove the following (that you must have in your POM) or put it in a profile that you don't use or exclude during release (I wonder when you use sources in that case):

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
      <executions>
        <execution>
          <goals>
            <goal>jar</goal>
          </goals>
        </execution>
      </executions>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>