Using with Maven Invoker and Distribution Management
When we want to test the distribution of artifacts, we'll have to add a separate execution block: one which is used for the repositories (read, see Using with Maven Invoker and repositories) and a second one which is used for distribution management (write).
<project>
...
<build>
...
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-invoker-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>install</goal>
<goal>integration-test</goal>
<goal>verify</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<filterProperties>
<mrm.distribution.url>${mrm.distribution.url}</mrm.distribution.url>
</filterProperties>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>mrm-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1</version>
<executions>
...
<execution>
<id>distribution</id>
<goals>
<goal>start</goal>
<goal>stop</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<propertyName>mrm.distribution.url</propertyName>
<repositories>
<hostedRepo>
<target>target/hosted-repo</target>
</hostedRepo>
</repositories>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
...
</build>
...
</project>Next you need to ensure per pom.xml that the value of mrm.distribution.url is used for the distribution management.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project>
...
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>mrm</id>
<url>${mrm.distribution.url}</url>
</repository>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>mrm</id>
<url>${mrm.distribution.url}</url>
</snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>
...
</project>If you want to split the snapshotRepository from the (release) repository, you have to add an extra execution-block with a different propertyName.
Since you've defined target/hosted-repo as the upload directory, you can use the postbuild-script from the maven-invoker-plugin to verify if all artifacts were uploaded as expected.