Question

I have a few projects with LOTS of maven dependencies. When I invoke the command mvn deploy (or some variation of it), I would like to not only have the project itself deployed to the remote repository, but also all of its dependencies as well. Is this possible? I see many ‘similar questions’ on this site, but I can’t seem to find anything that is as simply put as this. Everything else I’ve seen seems to expect some additional functionality. I simply want to deploy my project, plus all of its dependencies to the remote repo. I’m using the maven compiler plugin 1.5

This is a snippet of my settings.xml. Any idea what I’m missing?

<mirrors>
<mirror>
  <!--This is used to direct the public snapshots repo in the 
      profile below over to a different nexus group -->
  <id>nexus-public-snapshots</id>
  <mirrorOf>public-snapshots</mirrorOf>
  <url>http://{ourServer}/nexus/content/groups/public-snapshots</url>
</mirror>
<mirror>
  <!--This sends everything else to /public -->
  <id>nexus</id>
  <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
  <url>http://{ourServer}/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
</mirror>
  </mirrors>
<profiles>
<profile>
  <id>development</id>
  <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>
<profile>
  <!--this profile will allow snapshots to be searched when activated-->
  <id>public-snapshots</id>
  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>public-snapshots</id>
      <url>http://public-snapshots</url>
      <releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases>
      <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
    </repository>
  </repositories>
 <pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
      <id>public-snapshots</id>
      <url>http://public-snapshots</url>
      <releases><enabled>false</enabled></releases>
      <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
    </pluginRepository>
  </pluginRepositories>
</profile>
 </profiles>

Thanks in advance
~j

Answer 1

You could start with a clean local repository, attempt to build your application and for any dependency failure, deploy that application to your corporate repository. This would ensure that all the dependencies that your application needs resides in the corporate repository prior to your application getting built and deployed.

Prior to this, you would configure your local repository to mirror central and other well-known repositories, so that open source third-party libraries automatically get into your remote repository instead of having to be manually uploaded.

It may turn out that you may not have too many third-party libraries which you would need to manually deploy.