OpenLiberty Maven Plugin - maven

Question

I am trying to create a runnale openliberty server as part of my release process. I have a a multi module maven project with a submodule dedicated to packaging the server as a runnable. When I do a mvn clean package a lovely executable jar is produced which bundles one of the other submodules (war). The problem I am facing is when I do a maven deploy to our asset repo the packaged server is being uploaded as a zip file rather than a jar file. Does anyone know how to get the deploy plugin to upload the jar?
Here is a sample pom file
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>au.com.xxxx.xxxx</groupId>
<artifactId>xxx-backend-parent</artifactId>
<version>0.0.16-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>xxxx-openliberty-server</artifactId>
<packaging>liberty-assembly</packaging>
<name>fusion-openliberty-server</name>
<description>Runnable Jar containing xxxxand the OpenLiberty applictaion server</description>
<dependencies>
<!-- Package xxxx-application.war with server assembly -->
<dependency>
<groupId>au.com.xxx.xxx</groupId>
<artifactId>xxxx-application</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<!-- Enable liberty-maven-plugin -->
<plugin>
<groupId>net.wasdev.wlp.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>liberty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6.1</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<assemblyArtifact>
<groupId>io.openliberty</groupId>
<artifactId>openliberty-javaee8</artifactId>
<version>18.0.0.3</version>
<type>zip</type>
</assemblyArtifact>
<include>runnable</include>
<serverName>xxx</serverName>
<appsDirectory>apps</appsDirectory>
<serverEnv>${basedir}/src/main/resources/server.env</serverEnv>
<configFile>${basedir}/src/main/resources/server.xml</configFile>
<jvmOptionsFile>${basedir}/src/main/resources/jvm.options</jvmOptionsFile>
<bootstrapProperties>
<app.context.root>xxx-app</app.context.root>
<default.http.port>5000</default.http.port>
<default.https.port>5443</default.https.port>
</bootstrapProperties>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

Answer 1

I don't have an answer to your question but an explanation why this happens. Every packaging type (jar, war, liberty-assembly) defines a fixed extension for the artifact(s) it creates. The liberty-assembly types defines zip as it extension. This extension is used by the maven-install-plugin and maven-deploy-plugin regardless how the local file is names. I did quite some code digging but couldn't find a way to change this. It's probably sth. that only liberty-maven-plugin can change/fix.