Question

I have a Maven build with three modules.

• Module A exports a jar.
• Module B depends on A and exports a jar.
• Module C is a set of regression tests that depend on A and B.

The reason the regression tests aren’t just part of module B is that they should be able to run against multiple versions of A and B to ensure backwards compatibility. I want to be able to run deploy from the top level build to create A.jar and B.jar, but not C.jar. Is this possible?

Answer 1

<properties>
     <maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
</properties>

---

If you don’t need to create a JAR at all, you might want to add two more properties:

<jar.skipIfEmpty>true</jar.skipIfEmpty>
<maven.install.skip>true</maven.install.skip>

Note that you still need maven.deploy.skip, otherwise the build will fail during deployment.