maven deploy to Nexus

Step 1: Write a setting file: wenzhe_nexus_settings.xml, and define the <servers> tag to specify the nexus admin user password.

<settings>
  <mirrors>
    <mirror>
      <!--This sends everything else to /public -->
      <id>nexus</id>
      <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
      <url>http://nexus-wenzhe.com:8081/nexus/content/groups/public
      </url>
    </mirror>
  </mirrors>
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>nexus</id>
      <!--Enable snapshots for the built in central repo to direct -->
      <!--all requests to nexus via the mirror -->
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>central</id>
          <url>http://central</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
            <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
          </snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
      <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>central</id>
          <url>http://central</url>
          <releases>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </releases>
          <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
          </snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
  <activeProfiles>
    <!--make the profile active all the time -->
    <activeProfile>nexus</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>

  <servers>
    <server>
      <id>nexus-releases</id>
      <username>admin</username>
      <password>wenzhe</password>
    </server>
    <server>
      <id>nexus-snapshots</id>
      <username>admin</username>
      <password>wenzhe</password>
    </server>
  </servers>
</settings>

Step 2: In your pom.xml of the build project, add <distributionManagement> tag to define nexus URL of release and snapshot repository.

<project>
  ...
  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <nexus.url>http://nexus-wenzhe.com:8081/nexus</nexus.url>
  </properties>
  <distributionManagement>
    <repository>
      <id>nexus-releases</id>
      <url>${nexus.url}/content/repositories/releases/</url>
    </repository>
    <snapshotRepository>
      <id>nexus-snapshots</id>
      <url>${nexus.url}/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
    </snapshotRepository>
  </distributionManagement>
</project>

Step 3: type the command to deploy to remote Nexus (maven private repository):

mvn clean deploy -s wenzhe_nexus_settings.xml