Creating a link to the latest release with maven's deploy plugin

Question

My pom.xml contains:

<distributionManagement>
  <repository>
    <id>ssh-myown-repository</id>
    <url>scpexe://user@host/path/to/repository</url>
  </repository>
</distributionManagement>

So whenever I issue:

mvn deploy

My project is, well, deployed properly on my remote repository, under a name such as this:

http://host/repository/project/0.7.0-SNAPSHOT/project-0.7.0-20120518.212052-3.jar

I know file "maven-metadata.xml" contains information about which file is the latest release, but I'd very much like the mvn deploy stage to create a link to the latest jar file, say:

http://host/repository/project/0.7.0-SNAPSHOT/project-0.7.0-latest.jar

I understand "scpexe" has no way of doing this directly as links are part of the file system on which the web server is running (ie.: they are not represented as uploadable file content).

I have shell access on this remote server, so is there a way to hook on maven's deploy action to execute a script after deployment is complete ?

khmarbaise khmarbaise · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-23T18:58:55

You know that the -SNAPSHOT is a thing like the "LATEST". Furthermore i recommend to use a repository manager.

Creating a link to the latest release with maven's deploy plugin

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