[jira] Created: (MNG-4857) Improvement of performance on http deployment

["Andre Doherty (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Improvement of performance on http deployment
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                 Key: MNG-4857
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4857
             Project: Maven 2 & 3
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Deployment
    Affects Versions: 2.2.1
         Environment: Any
            Reporter: Andre Doherty


To my understanding, the current mecanism of deployment stands as :
- DeployMojo uses DefaultArtifactDeployer
- The latest relies on Wagon (mainly LightweightHttpWagon) to do the http deployment. 
- The deployment of one single file is implemented as HTTP PUT, done using the HTTP client stack provided by the JDK.

When deploying an artifact to a remote repository, DefaultArtifactDeployer first deploys the file itself, then the metadata (pom mainly + .md5 etc).

The drawback stands in the HTTP conversation (as implemented in the Sun HTTP stack) : if the http headers doesn't contain the "Authorization" header (assuming the remote part require basic authentication), then the remote will return a 201 HTTP code, asking for a authentication, and therefore for a second try.

Of course if we are dealing with a large artifact (war, ear) on a single deployment it will have to be sent twice. (In a chain of deployment on the same remote server, only the first one is impacted).

I see several tracks to improve the performance : 
- set Autorization as a header (we know in advance that the HTTP will require authentication, according to settings.xml, however, this assets that we do basic authentication.
- reverse order on publication : publish the pom before the jar/war/ear itself : if we need to retry, at least we dont have to resend dozens of megabytes.







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