How to configure maven project to deploy both snapshot and releases to Nexus?

Question

How to configure maven project to deploy both snapshot and releases to Nexus?

    
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Answer 1

You can do both.

Add the maven-release-plugin 2.5.3

Run the following:

mvn deploy clean:release release:prepare release:perform

Answer 2

Example of pom.xml configuration

<!-- http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Distribution_Management -->
<distributionManagement>
    <snapshotRepository>
        <id>InternalSnapshots</id>
        <name>Internal Snapshots</name>
        <url>http://192.168.16.232:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
    </snapshotRepository>
    <repository>
        <id>InternalReleases</id>
        <name>Internal Releases</name>
        <url>http://192.168.16.232:8081/nexus/content/repositories/releases/</url>
    </repository>
</distributionManagement>

Snippets for .m2/settings.xml for default Nexus installation

<server>   
    <id>thirdparty</id>   
  <username>deployment</username>
  <password>deployment123</password>
</server>
<server>
  <id>InternalReleases</id>
  <username>deployment</username>
  <password>deployment123</password>
 </server>  
<server>
  <id>InternalSnapshots</id>
  <username>deployment</username>
  <password>deployment123</password>
 </server>  

Answer 3

You need to distinguish between the releases and snapshots repository. <distributionManagement> only allows one <repository> and one <snapshotRepository> child.

http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Distribution_Management