Re: Would it make sense to publish a WAR to maven central?

[Manfred Moser <ma...@simpligility.com>]

Yes.. publishing war files, executable jar files or install/distribution archives of your app and so on is all within the scope of publishing to Central

Manfred

Matthieu BROUILLARD wrote on 2019-05-30 23:09:

> Why couldn't you publish as a war?
> AFAIK Central is not restricted to be a jar library.
> You can already find wars in central :
> https://search.maven.org/search?q=p:war
> 
> Regards
> 
> Matthieu
> 
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 2:40 PM Russell Gold <ru...@oracle.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> The open source Weblogic Monitoring Exporter <
>> https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-monitoring-exporter> is a set of
>> servlets that works as an exporter for Prometheus. Building it involves two
>> steps: one build compiles the servlets and the second assembles them into a
>> WAR, in which a configuration file is embedded. Currently, users clone the
>> repository and run both builds, but that means that they generally work
>> with the latest commits. I am thinking that it makes more sense to publish
>> it to maven central, but am looking for guidance. Is it customary to
>> publish WARs to central? In such a case, I would combine the builds, and a
>> simple shell command or script could supply the configuration. Or would it
>> be best to publish the JAR containing the servlets and have users run the
>> second build to create the WAR?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Russ
> 


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