Yes.. publishing war files, executable jar files or install/distribution archives of your app and so on is all within the scope of publishing to Central
Manfred Matthieu BROUILLARD wrote on 2019-05-30 23:09: > 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
