Question

I have added below profile to my pom.xml :

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>nexus</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
        <distributionManagement>
            <repository>
                <id>nexusid1</id>
                   <url>http://</url>
            </repository>
            <snapshotRepository>
                <id>nexusid2</id>
                 <url>http://</url>
            </snapshotRepository>
        </distributionManagement>
    </profile>
</profiles>

I have added to settings.xml :

    <server>
<id>nexusid1</id>
<username>username</username>
<password>passwword</password>
    </server>

To add the project to the Nexus repo I use mvn deploy

Do I need to use a profile in this case ?
If I want to deploy to nexusid2 does this mean I need to add a new server entry to settings.xml even if the username/password for nexusid1 & nexusid2 are the same ?

Answer 1

According to this page, there is a -DaltDeploymentRepository argument for mvn:deploy. But imho, profiles would be the more elegant solution here, cause you don’t need to remember the server id but the profile name.
And yes, you need to add a new server to the settings.xml, even if username and password are equal.

Note besides: Password encryption for server management