Uploading artifacts to Archiva with webdav

Archiva natively supports webdav to upload artifacts on a managed repository.

Pre-requisites

• Create a managed repository
• Add to a user the Manager Role for this repository
• Then you'll need to tell maven's settings.xml file about your username and password (this file belongs in ~/.m2):

<settings>
 <servers>
  <server>
   <id>YOUR_REPO_ID</id>
   <username>USERNAME</username>
   <password>PASSWORD</password>
  </server>
 </servers>
</settings>

• Below we suppose that you defined two repositories, one for releases (YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_ID, YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_URL) and one for snapshots (YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_ID, YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_URL)

Maven 1.x

Upload third party artifact

• This feature isn't yet supported by the artifact plugin. We'll had it ASAP.

Upload project's artifact

• The webdav protocol isn't yet supported by the artifact plugin. It's quite easy to had (And I already succeded to do it). I'll commit the change and publish a snapshot soon....
• Sample of settings :

# Repository to deploy to
#maven.repo.list=YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_ID

#maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_ID=dav:YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_URL
#maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_ID.directory=/
# These must be set elsewhere
#maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_ID.username=
#maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_ID.password=

# Repository to deploy snapshots
#maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_ID=dav:YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_URL
#maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_ID.directory=/
#maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_ID.username=${maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_ID.username}
#maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_ID.password=${maven.repo.YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_ID.password}

Maven 2.x

Upload third party artifact

Maven 2.0.x does not yet natively support the webdav protocol to upload artifacts. See http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2664 for more information.

Meanwhile, you can use a simple pom.xml file containing the wagon-webdav build extension, as described here: http://maven.apache.org/archiva/guides/getting-started/maven-configuration.html

And then deploy your artifact:

mvn deploy:deploy-file \
    -DrepositoryId=<YOUR_REPO_ID> \
    -Durl=dav:<YOUR_REPO_URL> \
    -DgroupId=<GROUP_ID> \
    -DartifactId=<ARTIFACT_ID> \
    -Dversion=<VERSION> \
    -Dpackaging=<PACKAGING> \
    -Dfile=<FILE_PATH>

or (note that pomFile is pom that goes with the artifact, not the simple one mentioned above.)

mvn deploy:deploy-file \
    -DrepositoryId=<YOUR_REPO_ID> \
    -Durl=dav:<YOUR_REPO_URL> \
    -DpomFile=<POM_FILE_PATH>\
    -Dfile=<FILE_PATH>

Upload project's artifact 

You need to tell the <build> section about the Wagon WebDAV plugin:

<build>
 <extensions>
  <extension>
   <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
   <artifactId>wagon-webdav</artifactId>
   <version>1.0-beta-1</version>
  </extension>
 </extensions>
 ...
</build>

Next you'll need to update your distributionManagement section:

<distributionManagement>
 <repository>
  <id>YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_ID</id>
  <name>Central Repository</name>
  <url>dav:YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_URL</url>
 </repository>
 <snapshotRepository>
  <id>YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_ID</id>
  <name>Central Development Repository</name>
  <url>dav:YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_URL</url>
 </snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>

You can put <distributionManagement> in the parent pom for a multi-module project. It will be inherited by the child projects, which can override it if necessary.

Performing a deployment

• Now you can use the normal maven deploy command:

$ mvn deploy

• Your SNAPSHOT repository will be viewable at: YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_RELEASES_URL
• Your release repository will viewable at: YOUR_REPOSITORY_FOR_SNAPSHOTS_URL
• You will need to navigate down to the appropriate location for your artifacts.