How to fetch artifacts from own repo using maven? - maven

Question

How do I create a simple project that fetches artifacts from my repo using maven? And where will these artifacts get saved to - my default maven repo?
I am using Apache Archiva.

Answer 1

Just simply start using a repository manager like Nexus and that's it. Please configure your settings.xml file according to the following:
<settings>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<!--This sends everything else to /public -->
<id>nexus</id>
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
<url>URL OF your ARCHIVA SERVER</url>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>nexus</id>
<!--Enable snapshots for the built in central repo to direct -->
<!--all requests to nexus via the mirror -->
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>central</id>
<url>http://central</url>
<releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>central</id>
<url>http://central</url>
<releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
<snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</profile>
</profiles>
<activeProfiles>
<!--make the profile active all the time -->
<activeProfile>nexus</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
</settings>
The artifacts which are being downloaded are first stored into the Archiva and of course on your hard drive $HOME/.m2/repository.
If you like to deploy artifact into archiva you need to configure the distributionManagement in your pom file similar like this:
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>releases</id>
<name>Archiva RElease repo</name>
<url>http://URL OF YOUR ARCHIVA/releases/</url>
</repository>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>snapshots<id>
<name>Archiva Snapshots repo</name>
<url>http://URL OF YOUR ARCHIVA/snapshots/</url>
</snapshotRepository>
...
</distributionManagement>
...
To test this you can use mvn deploy to see if the artiacts are being deployed to the snapshot repository. You can change the version of your test project into 1.0 and redo a mvn deploy which will try to deploy the artifacts into the release repository.