How to stop maven deploying test jar files - maven

Maven has a useful facility to create jar files for tests that can be depended on by other projects. We use the "easy way" from this page. This all works fine, and produces files of the name foo-1.0.0-tests.jar.
By default, these test jar files are installed and deployed. The question is how to have them be installed, but NOT deployed?
(There is no need or desire to publish these files to maven central, but they are needed when running tests locally. Thus install is correct, and deploy is not.)
The maven deploy plugin appears to have has no suitable options. The build-helper-plugin has the ability to attach file to deploy, but not to remove them.
Any suggestions to get these jar files installed, but not deployed?

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Setup maven pom to work with dependencies across environments

I have a Java projects a-1.0.jar with ojdbc.jar dependency and b.jar that depends on a-1.0.jar and ojdbc.jar. I am trying to make it work on my machine, new user machine and a Bamboo server.
Desired behavior:
On local machine git clone <git_url>, mvn clean install, java -jar b.jar project should run. Bamboo should checkout and run project.
On Bamboo: a plan can check out a project and run it. Build should track version of b.jar built and a.jar used.
So far I saw these options:
<systemPath>${project.basedir}/lib/a-1.0.jar</systemPath>: maven warns that it will fail to resolve dependencies
A Perl script to run mvn install for each dependent jar before building the project
(1) defeats the purpose of DevOps automation
(2) makes it unclear which version of a jar was used
(3) installs the jar, but java -jar b.jar fails a.jar is missing
I can overcome this with another Perl script that adds the dependent jars to a classpath
These are basic tasks and as a build tool Maven should be able to do it.
How to tell Maven to three goals below?
(1) For each unknown import - get a jar from lib folder
(2) Make a set of dependent jars. That is don't import ojdbc twice
(3) Pack a self sufficient jar that runs, not fails with "stuff is missing"
Seems like you need to create an executable jar - and for this, you can use various approaches.
One of them is, add maven-shade-plugin which puts all dependencies into single jar, while taking care of potential resource collisions.
Try non-maven-jar-maven plugin. It adds jars that are not in the maven central.

Secondary Jar version don't sync up when deploying

I'm using gradle artifactory plugin to deploy my library to oss-snapshot-local.
The first deploy works as intended and the filenames are correct:
eg.
skrypton-api-1.0.0-20171014.053125-1-sources.jar
skrypton-api-1.0.0-20171014.053125-1.jar
But on the second deploy, the sources jar is not uploaded despite the plugin saying it has deployed it. I end up with only
skrypton-api-1.0.0-20171014.053349-2.jar
Deploying for the third time,
skrypton-api-1.0.0-20171014.053349-2-sources.jar shows up. But not third source jar. Only skrypton-api-1.0.0-20171014.054252-3.jar
This is what it looks like in general after 3 deploys
The source jar version seems to be stuck at (deploy number - 1) after the first deployment. Tried it with a javadoc jar and it also doesn't work properly.
This is the build script in question.

What does maven clean install -U do?

I have eclipse ide with m2e plugin, maven and weblogc app server running from my local box.
I have imported someone else's multiple maven projects from bitbucket to my box. I was told that one of them is main and rest are dependencies in which I never seen anything like that before. I have always dealt with single maven project. Anyhow from the instruction, it says I have to run maven command such as "clean install -U".
In the IDE so I touched run configuration for each mvn project by setting goal as "clean install -U". By reading maven guide, I kind understand what each term means but when you combine together with a passing parameter, what does it do actually? I didn't expect a jar (web app) to be deployed to an application server but it did also.
-U forces maven to check any external dependencies (third party dependencies) that might need to be updated based on your POM files.
clean install are both basic maven lifecycle phases (https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html).
install normally would simply take the artifact that is built and put it in the local repository, i.e. a directory on the box you are building on (.m2 directory most of the time). It would not do a deployment to a server - typically the deploy phase would be used to do that.
However, developers can override and add to what maven does in the various phases, so just like in the days of ant things can easily devolve into chaos no one can understand on complex projects ;-).
sometimes in the integration-test phase, developers will tell maven to start up a container temporarily to run the web app on, so that tests can be run against it, and then that container is shut down when the integration-test phase completes.

Why after compiling/building my AWS sdk jar is only 3kb?

I was previously on 1.6.x and mvn clean install builds wit no issues; end up with a 10mb jar and able to run all my code.
Now I want to upgrade to 1.10.x for the new lambda/apig/ddb support, I changed the version from 1.6.x to 1.10.x.
But after I build with mvn clean install, I see the jar is only 3kb, why is that? Has something changed with the way the AWS sdk works? At least from I've seen, one new way is you can be pick specific services rather than the whole sdk.
Edit:
The 3kb jar has the following:
pom.properties:
version=1.10.66
groupId=com.amazonaws
artifactId=aws-java-sdk
pom.xml, which lists all the aws sdk services
Have you uncompresssed the jar file and looked up what is in that folder? Based on the information in your question, I guess you have just got your own source files there but not the dependencies. If any, maven dependencies are usually located at META-INF\maven in jar. BTW, do you use maven plugins? For example, maven-jar-plugin only outputs your source code in jar while maven-assembly-plugin also outputs maven dependencies.

How to download maven dependencies from Jenkins without a binary repository

Are there any plugins or ways to download the dependencies for a maven project from Jenkins? I am using Jenkins for a multi-module desktop application. Although I know I could just archive all dependencies, I don't see why there isn't the ability to download dependencies using maven which installed on the same machine as Jenkins. Preferably one would specify the location of a pom and then have the ability with one click to download all the dependencies for that pom. Can you do this? I do not need or want an entire binary repository for this feature.
Edit: I will try and rephrase this as I don't think people are understanding.
In Jenkins one has the ability to archive artifacts at the end of a build. Also in jenkins you have integration with maven. When building a jar in maven you have arguablly 2 options:
You can either use the assembly plugin which zips all .class files
together with those produced from your source code resulting in 1 jar
You can create a jar just source code which references all
dependency jars which are located in a separate folder.
In Jenkins one also has the ability to download the latest artifact. Now if I am using Option 2, I can either archieve just the jar which my sources produced, which I would say is more desirable for space and is the whole purpose of the archive functionality, or you can also archive the libraries too.
Here is the PROBLEM!! If I don't archive the libraries then I cannot easily run this jar, as it is a desktop application and its dependencies cannot be obtained in the same mannor as clicking on a link from jenkins. So lets say my question is what is the easiest way to obtain them? Extra info: assume jenkins is running as a server and you can't use artifactory or another server application, that seems to me to be massive over kill.
Use the maven plugin and create a maven job for your project. Jenkins will then use the maven command you provide in the job configuration to build the project. This means maven will download the projects dependencies and store them on the machine jenkins is running. Normally this would be <JENKINS_HOME>/.m2/repository. This way you get a local repository that only contains the dependencies of the projects you created maven jobs for.

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