How to upload the artifacts in Sonatype Nexus using Maven

Step 1 – Install and Configure Nexus Server

Step 2 – [Nexus Server] Create a nexus role containing all required access of Nexus.

Step 3 – [Nexus Server] Create a user which must be used for package deployment by maven to Nexus. user must be added to Role.

Step 4 – [Nexus Server] Login to Nexus using New created user

Step 5 – [Nexus Server] Create a 1 repository of Maven 2 type But Policy must be Hosted Release

Step 6 – [Nexus Server] Create a 1 repository of Maven 2 type But Policy must be Hosted Snapshot

Step 7 – [Nexus Server] Create a 1 repository of Maven 2 type But Policy must be Proxy of Maven Central

Step 8 – [Nexus Server] Create a 1 repository of Maven 2 type But Policy must be Group containing all 3 repo created above

Step 9 – [Workstation] Download – Install – Configure Java and Maven

Step 10 – [Workstation] Create a Maven Sample Project

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Step 11 – Modify a pom.xml with a repository where you want to upload a artifact using Maven

Step 12 – Modify a setting.xml with a repository permission with a new user created

Step 13 – Important – repository id in pom.xml(distributionManagement element) and access id in setting.xml (server element) must match.+

Step 14 – Run maven deploy to upload artifact

# To Upload Snapshot version of Artifact, Make sure pom.xml version element must be with SNAPSHOT
$ mvn deploy

# To Upload Releasde version of Artifact, Make sure pom.xml version element must be without SNAPSHOT
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