Maven部署而不上传任何pom文件

Question

I'm building a multiplatform javafx application. The final process is to create an installer (exe,dmg,deb.. with jre bundled) and upload it to a special "product release" repo. Given how javafx build needs to be done, it runs an jenkins matrix job on 3 different platforms. The last step is the deployment. I attach the installer with the build-helper-maven plugin.

I'm able to upload the installer correctly for one platform, but because the deploy seems to upload the pom file, it cannot be uploaded again from another jenkins slave.

First I was having problem of maven uploading the "main jar", but I managed to disable that by binding the jar plugin to 'none' phase (I use the maven-javafx-plugin which creates own main jar). However I'm unable to disable the pom generation and uploading. I have set

<generatePom>false</generatePom> 

for the maven-deploy-plugin but it seems to not have any effect (I assume it works for the main jar which I have already disabled).

Is it possible to disable the pom generation/upload completely (similar like gradle's 'uploadDescriptor false' option) and only upload 'attached artifacts' ?

EDIT/NOTE: I probably try the deploy file option next, https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-file-mojo.html , but it would be nice to know if this can be done on the complete project level

Answer 1

I managed to solve this. I did it with the deploy-file option:

I bound the default-deploy to none in order to disable it. Then I made new "native-deploy" execution which I bound to deploy phase. In it's configuration I put the generatePom false and pointed the file to the same I was earlier using to attach it as side artifact (via the build helper plugin). I did have to put the coodrinates again (ie passtrough from project.*). But did work and uploaded the installers from all machines without any pom files. I did have to re-enable the default jar creation because maven complained that there is no artifact bound (I guess I could change the packaging to be pom, anyway it is not uploaded because the default upload is disabled so ok there).

I guess if there is more general solution it would be more correct answer but for me this is enough.

Answer 2

The maven-deploy-plugin has the configuration option skip which takes a boolean value and suppresses the execution of this plugin if set to true .

I think this is what you are looking for.

Apache Maven Deploy Plugin documentation