Download WAR from snapshot-repository and deploy to local JBoss using mvn

Question

currently I deploy my war with jboss:hard-deploy to my JBoss 6 AS. This works fine, but I have to checkout project from SVN and package it.

Answer 1

Ideally you would want to set up Jenkins to deploy to your testing server as part of your CI build.

Alternatively, if you want to manually run a script on the server you are deploying to, you could set up a specific pom.xml to perform this task. First setup the dependency plugin to download your war:

  
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-dependency-plugin
    2.3
    
      
        package
        
          copy
        
        
          
            
              my-group
              my-web-archive
              my-vesion
              war
              my-web-archive.war
            
          
          ${project.build.directory}
        
      
    
  

Substituting the group ID, artifact ID and version for the respective properties of your WAR file. Next configure the JBoss plugin to deploy the downloaded WAR:

  
    org.codehaus.mojo
    jboss-maven-plugin
    1.5.0
    
      /opt/jboss-6
      all
      ${project.build.directory}/my-web-archive.war
    
  

You should then be able to download the artifact from your internal repository and deploy it in the locally running JBoss container with the following command:

mvn package jboss:hard-deploy