Maven Snapshot Repository vs Release Repository

Question

What is the difference between a Snapshot Repository and Release Repository?

This is with reference to setting up Repositories (lik

Answer 1

Usually in maven we have two types of builds:

1) Snapshot builds: SNAPSHOT is the special version that indicates current deployment copy and not a regular, specific version. Maven checks the version for every build in the remote repository. The snapshot builds are nothing but development builds.

2) Release builds: Release means removing the SNAPSHOT at the version ID for the build. These are the regular build versions.

Snapshot artifacts and release artifacts are push to snapshot, release repositories respectively.