I don't think Maven was meant to solve application deployment issues. The whole field of installers & deployment is very complex. Sometimes you need to install certain files as root, install cron/timer jobs, stop and restart services, create directory structures, and so on.
I have been able to use Maven to create installable artifacts -- I had a Maven1 plugin that would invoke InstallShield. In Maven2 I replaced InstallShield with a Python script. There are various plugins for other installers. I'm sure that this is not the right way to do things, but for us, right now, it works. That said the assembly plugin is very nice. You could use it to define a simple zip file with a structure like: bin etc jars wars This zip file would then feed into some deployment tool/process which would do the messy stuff. I would like a way to create a self-extracting zip file using the assembly plugin, but I've never had time to investigate. This would make it easy to do simple linux installs. The self extracting archive would unpack everything then execute the file ./bin/install, which (hopefully) does the right things. Regards, Christopher Helck -----Original Message----- From: Jesper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 9:05 AM To: users@maven.apache.org Subject: Recommended production release procedure? Hi, I'm maven'izing a large enterprise project (from ant) and am looking for any recommendations on how to do releases to non-maven environments. After doing the maven build (multi-module) and producing all the artifacts in the repository, I need to deploy them to different environments. I may have 20 jars from 20 modules, 1 war and script files/webstart jnlp files, etc (binaries), all these need to go into a certain directory structure on the environments, eg. the war in the webapps directory, all the libs in a lib directory without any poms and maven versioning data in the filenames or the classpath will need to constantly be updated. Currently, my thinking is to use the assembly plugin to group the jars, create jars of the binaries so they can be deployed. The deploy plugin seem to be to deploy to a another maven repository which isn't really what I want to do. So my question is whether there is a plugin suitable for this, or do I need to break it up into more steps, eg. copy to a remote machine, unpack the binaries, etc. What are everyone experience with this, perhaps others have a different way of achieving this.. Thanks Jesper --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************************************************** This communication and all information (including, but not limited to, market prices/levels and data) contained therein (the "Information") is for informational purposes only, is confidential, may be legally privileged and is the intellectual property of ICAP plc and its affiliates ("ICAP") or third parties. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. The Information is not, and should not be construed as, an offer, bid or solicitation in relation to any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. The Information is not warranted, including, but not limited, as to completeness, timeliness or accuracy and is subject to change without notice. ICAP assumes no liability for use or misuse of the Information. All representations and warranties are expressly disclaimed. The Information does not necessarily reflect the views of ICAP. Access to the Information by anyone else other than the recipient is unauthorized and any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. ********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]