How to deploy only zip artifacts in maven - maven

Question

I have done some zip packaging in maven using the below descriptor and pom file. But in maven by default it created both jar and zip in target folder. Now i want to deploy only zip contents where i am using deploy:deploy-file plugin. but it is not deploying instead it is showing error. Not sure what is wrong with tag and how it should be resolved.
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>
<groupId>com.wyndhamvo.prototype.dbscripts</groupId>
<artifactId>DB_SCRIPTS</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.1</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptor>src/assembly/descriptor.xml</descriptor>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
</properties>
<distributionManagement>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>wvoNexus</id>
<file>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.zip</file>
<url>http://nexus.corproot.com/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
</snapshotRepository>
<repository>
<id>wvoNexus</id>
<file>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.zip</file>
<url>http://nexus.corproot.com/nexus/content/repositories/releases/</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
</project>
assembly plugin descriptor file:
<assembly>
<formats>
<format>zip</format>
</formats>
<fileSets>
<fileSet>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
</includes>
<outputDirectory>DB_Files</outputDirectory>
</fileSet>
</fileSets>
</assembly>
Command Executed:
mvn -X clean package deploy:deploy-file
Error:
[ERROR] Malformed POM C:\Divakar\MavenPrototype\DB_Maven_Test\dev\pom.xml: Unrecognised tag: 'file' (position: START_TAG seen ...<id>wvoNexus</id>\r\n\t\t\t<file>... #37:10) # C:\Divakar\MavenPrototype\DB_Maven_Test\dev\pom.xml, line 37, column 10

Answer 1

First you have to fix you error in distributionManagement area like this:
<distributionManagement>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>wvoNexus</id>
<url>http://nexus.corproot.com/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
</snapshotRepository>
<repository>
<id>wvoNexus</id>
<url>http://nexus.corproot.com/nexus/content/repositories/releases/</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
If you fixed that you can simple deploy the files to your nexus via:
mvn clean deploy
If you don't like having a jar deployed as well you need to change the packing type in your pom 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>
<groupId>com.wyndhamvo.prototype.dbscripts</groupId>
<artifactId>DB_SCRIPTS</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0.1</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<descriptor>src/assembly/descriptor.xml</descriptor>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Furthermore i recommend to define the versions of your used plugins like this:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.1</version>
<configuration>
<descriptor>src/assembly/descriptor.xml</descriptor>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>single</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>

Answer 2

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-artifacts</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>attach-artifact</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifacts>
<artifact>
<file>some file</file>
<type>extension of your file </type>
<classifier>optional</classifier>
</artifact>
</artifacts>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Answer 3

You made a mistake: the <file/> element is not a part of <snapshotRepository/>, it's an config item of deploy plugin! you should deploy your zip file as following:
mvn -X clean package deploy:deploy-file -Dfile=/path/to/your-artifact-1.0.zip