Hello, Maven repository may contain anything, you just have to set appropriate classifier and type/packaging. I never deployed zip archives using Maven plugins, but I often upload zips to our company Nexus using web-front.
Regards, htfv (Aliaksei Lahachou) On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Dušan Rychnovský <geraltzri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using Maven at work to organize my software projects. I will first of > all describe you my current build process. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The typical deployment assembly contains at least: > > - the application JAR file, > - a JAR file for every dependency, > - an application configuration file (an XML file with an XSD schema file), > - Log4J configuration file (a single XML file). > > It is important that the application configuration file is not packaged > inside the application JAR file - I could not change configuration in > production otherwise. > > The Maven assembly plugin is used to package all those files into a single > ZIP to allow convenient deploy at the target machine. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For every environment (e.g. development, test, acceptance, production) > there is a single Maven profile. The configuration files contain property > placeholders. When building the assembly, the values of properties used in > the configuration files (e.g. the default configuration values) are > resolved according to the active profile. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The question I have is how to store the builds to be available for > deployment - so that I don't have to build the project every time I need to > deploy the application to a new machine. To my understanding, a Nexus > repository is typically used for that. I have found out though that a Maven > repository is only capable of storing simple artifacts, not ZIP assemblies. > > I am convinced that there are plenty of projects that need external > configuration files in addition to the application JARs. What is the > commonly used way to handle my issue? > > Thank you in advance for all replies. > > Dusan R. >
