Maven: The packaging for this project did not assign a file to the build artifact

Question

I\'m using Maven 3.0.3 on Mac 10.6.6. I have a JAR project and when I run the command \"mvn clean install:install\", I\'m getting the error,

[ERROR] Failed         


        

Answer 1

While @A_Di-Matteo answer does work for non multimodule I have a solution for multimodules.

The solution is to override every plugin configuration so that it binds to the phase of none with the exception of the jar/war/ear plugin and of course the deploy plugin. Even if you do have a single module my rudimentary tests show this to be a little faster (for reasons I don't know) performance wise.

Thus the trick is to make a profile that does the above that is activated when you only want to deploy.

Below is an example from one of my projects which uses the shade plugin and thus I had to re-override the jar plugin not to overwrite:

    
      deploy
      
        
          buildStep
          deploy
        
      
      
        
          
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-compiler-plugin
            
              
                default-compile
                none
              
              
                default-testCompile
                none
              
              
                test-compile
                none
              
            
          
          
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-surefire-plugin
            
              
                default-test
                none
              
            
          
          
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-install-plugin
            
              
                default-install
                none
              
            
          
          
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-resources-plugin
            
              
                default-resources
                none
              
              
                default-testResources
                none
              
            
          
          
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-shade-plugin
            
              
                default
                none
              
            
          
          
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-jar-plugin
            
              
                default-jar
                
                  false
                
              
            
          
        
      
    

Now if I run mvn deploy -Pdeploy it will only run the jar and deploy plugins.

How you can figure out which plugins you need to override is to run deploy and look at the log to see which plugins are running. Make sure to keep track of the id of the plugin configuration which is parens after the name of the plugin.