Why couldn't you publish as a war? AFAIK Central is not restricted to be a jar library. You can already find wars in central : https://search.maven.org/search?q=p:war
Regards Matthieu On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 2:40 PM Russell Gold <russell.g...@oracle.com> wrote: > The open source Weblogic Monitoring Exporter < > https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-monitoring-exporter> is a set of > servlets that works as an exporter for Prometheus. Building it involves two > steps: one build compiles the servlets and the second assembles them into a > WAR, in which a configuration file is embedded. Currently, users clone the > repository and run both builds, but that means that they generally work > with the latest commits. I am thinking that it makes more sense to publish > it to maven central, but am looking for guidance. Is it customary to > publish WARs to central? In such a case, I would combine the builds, and a > simple shell command or script could supply the configuration. Or would it > be best to publish the JAR containing the servlets and have users run the > second build to create the WAR? > > Thanks, > Russ
