Deploying third-party artifacts to a local repository with WebDAV

This guide outlines how to deploy third party jars to a local repository over WebDAV. Using WebDAV requires (i) setting up the login data of the WebDAV repository and (ii) providing a current Webdav wagon extension to maven.

1. Configure the Webdav repository in ~/.m2/settings.xml.

   <settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
       xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                             http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
      
      
       <servers>
          <server>
              <id>mywebdavserver</id>
              <username>user</username>
              <password>***</password>
          </server>
       </servers>
    </settings>
   

2. Create a dummy pom file which provides maven with information on the required Webdav wagon:

   <project>
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
      <groupId>com.example</groupId>
      <artifactId>webdav-deploy</artifactId>
      <packaging>pom</packaging>
      <version>1</version>
      <name>Webdav Deploy</name>
      
      <build>
         <extensions>
            <extension>
               <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
               <artifactId>wagon-webdav-jackrabbit</artifactId>
               <version>3.0.0</version>
            </extension>
         </extensions>
      </build>
   </project>
   

3. upload the artifact to the repository with mvn:

   mvn deploy:deploy-file -Dfile=<path-to-file> \
           -DgroupId=<group-id> \
           -DartifactId=<artificat-id> \
           -Dversion=<version> \
           -Dpackaging=<packaging> \
           -DrepositoryId=mywebdavserver \
           -Durl=dav:<url-to-the-webdav-server>
   

   Example: deploy the latest libsvm version to our local repository.

   mvn deploy:deploy-file\
       -Dfile=libsvm.jar \
       -DgroupId=tw.edu.ntu.csie \
       -DartifactId=libsvm \
       -Dversion=3.22 \
       -Dpackaging=jar \
       -DrepositoryId=semanticlab.net 
       -Durl=dav:http://semanticlab.net/deploy/
   

Literature

• Guide to deploying 3rd party JARs to remote repository
• Deploying jars to third party maven repository via WebDAV