An important part of a release process is storing artifacts in an artifact repository. Many customers use custom implementations of artifact repositories (such as file shares in combination with custom scripts) but there are also products which offer many functions of such a repository (and probably many more) out of the box so that custom implementations are not necessary anymore. Nexus is an example of a popular artifact repository. An added benefit of using a popular product to provide repository functionality is that a lot of development tools can easily be integrated with it. Maven can easily be used to compile and assemble code and deploy it to a Nexus repository.
In this blog I will provide an example of how a shell script (as an example artifact) can be packaged and deployed to Nexus by using Maven. I will use the maven-assembly-plugin to package the script, the nexus-staging-maven-plugin to deploy to Nexus and the maven-release-plugin for the version control part of the release process.
