Jenkins - create a tar.gz from various ear and deliver it on a distant server - maven

Question

I have a maven build which produces a target/myModule.ear for each module it builds.
I want to create a Jenkins job which :
1) Build the project with a "mvn clean install"
2) Archive all the ear into a tar.gz
3) Deliver this tar.gz on a distant server
I am very new to Jenkins so I don't know how to do 2) and 3). The only solution I can come up with is to create a script, but if I do that there is no point in using Jenkins.

Answer 1

You need a parent project which has a war/jar and an ear project to wrap the war, then a distribution project to assemble the tar.gz.
parent looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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>
<groupId>com.greg</groupId>
<artifactId>ear-example</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<properties>
<myproject.version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</myproject.version>
</properties>
<name>ear-example</name>
<modules>
<module>example-ear</module>
<module>example-war</module>
<module>distribution</module>
</modules>
</project>
ear project has dependency to the war project and looks like:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>com.greg</groupId>
<artifactId>ear-example</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>example-ear</artifactId>
<packaging>ear</packaging>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.greg</groupId>
<artifactId>example-war</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<type>war</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10.1</version>
<configuration>
<modules>
<webModule>
<groupId>com.greg</groupId>
<artifactId>example-war</artifactId>
<contextRoot>/appname</contextRoot>
</webModule>
</modules>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
The distribution project looks like this:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>com.greg</groupId>
<artifactId>ear-example</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<artifactId>distribution</artifactId>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>Distribution</name>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.greg</groupId>
<artifactId>example-ear</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
<type>ear</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>distro-assembly</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<descriptors>
<descriptor>src/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
</descriptors>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
The assembly.xml which builds the zip looks like:
<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/ASSEMBLY/2.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-2.0.0.xsd">
<id>bin</id>
<formats>
<format>zip</format>
</formats>
<includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
<moduleSets>
<moduleSet>
<useAllReactorProjects>true</useAllReactorProjects>
<binaries>
<outputDirectory>modules/maven-assembly-plugin</outputDirectory>
<unpack>false</unpack>
</binaries>
</moduleSet>
</moduleSets>
</assembly>
The deployment you will have to do yourself