Can I modify the Maven deploy phase to replace the maven-deploy-plugin with my own plugin? - maven

Question

I'm pretty new to Maven...
What I'm trying to do is skip the maven-deploy-plugin during the deploy phase, while replacing it with my own plugin (i.e. I'm deploying to a non-repository location).
I realize I could do this in multiple other ways, but the boss wants to be able to run:
mvn deploy
To get the results of my current workaround, which is disabling the maven-deploy-plugin (which seems to be disabling the entire deploy phase), and manually specifying the custom upload goal from the command line.
I'm currently failing to succeed in my mission with:
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>deploy</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
in the build/plugins/plugin section containing my plugin specification, since the deploy phase is skipped by:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
Thanks!

Answer 1

disabling the maven-deploy-plugin (which seems to be disabling the entire deploy phase)
This is not correct. Disabling maven-deploy-plugin doesn't disable the entire deploy phase. This is how it should be done (looks like you're doing it already):
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build>

Answer 2

Try this (untested) alternative for disabling the standard deploy plugin:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-deploy</id>
<phase>none</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Answer 3

I want to build on #yegor256's answer a bit... 8 years, 4 months later!
I found myself here getting into the weeds on some legacy Maven configurations that were full of cruft. Coming from a Maven mindset, albeit some years between now and active hacking, I was re-familiarizing myself with the Maven lifecycle.
TLDR... mvn help:effective-pom is your friend. Use your IDE's tools for viewing the effective POM often (NetBeans makes it easy. I added a keyboard shortcut in IntelliJ.)
In the configuration I was reviewing, the previous developers had created two (2) deploy-file executions, one war, one jar.
<build>
...
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.8.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy-war</id>
<phase>deploy</phase>
<goals>
<goal>deploy-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
... omitted ...
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>deploy-jar</id>
<phase>deploy</phase>
<goals>
<goal>deploy-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
... omitted ...
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
...
</build>
I was aware that these executions would be appended to the default-deploy bound to the deploy phase and observed this behavior in the logs. The default-deploy would run, uploading an empty war file, then the deploy-war would run, uploading, and overwriting, the first war file.
Several options exist.
skip and combine.self="override" (my preference)
As presented, using <skip> as a <configuration> option is viable. It is safe and more portable than setting setting the <phase> to none.
However, it will be inherited by the other executions (certainly as presented). To prevent this, you must explicitly tell your additional <execution> configurations to not inherit.
...
...
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy-war</id>
<phase>deploy</phase>
<goals>
<goal>deploy-file</goal>
</goals>
<configuration combine.self="override">
... omitted ...
</configuration>
</execution>
...
...
Override default-deploy
Another option, possibly more verbose and lest esoteric than combine.self="override" is to override the execution of the default-deploy <id> of the plugin.
...
<execution>
<id>default-deploy</id>
<configuration>
<skip>true</skip>
</configuration>
</execution>
...
This will not be inherited by the additional <executions>.
Another option
As #yegor256 notes, but in the additional configurations explicitly state <skip>false</skip> to "reset" the inherited <skip> from the plugin.
HTH.