How to deploing jars to your artifactory server

The build phase generates one or more artifacts, maven provides a local repository where to store these artifacts but It is possible to store the artifacts in a remote repository as an Artifactory server.

For deploying jars to your artifactory server you can add the following configuration in your settings.xml (in $HOME/.m2). This configuration stores the credentials for the authentication into artifactory repositories.

<servers>
    .......
    <server>
      <id>central</id>
      <username>user</username>
      <password>password</password>
    </server>
    <server>
      <id>snapshots</id>
      <username>user</username>
      <password>password</password>
    </server>
    .......
<servers>

Now yoiu can add the repository configuration always in settings.xml.

<repositories>
......
  <repository>
    <snapshots>
        <enabled>false</enabled>
    </snapshots>
    <id>central</id>
    <name>libs-releases</name>
    <url>http://myartifactory:8080/artifactory/libs-releases</url>
  </repository>
  <repository>
    <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
        <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy>
        <checksumPolicy>fail</checksumPolicy>
    </snapshots>
    <id>snapshots</id>
    <name>libs-snapshots</name>
    <url>http://myartifactory:8080/artifactory/libs-snapshots</url>
  </repository>
......
<repositories>

You can execute the following command:

$ mvn deploy

If your maven project version has a SNAPSHOT version then the jars will be deployed on "libs-snapshots" repo, else they will be deployed in "libs-releases".
If you want deploy the jars in a repo not configured in settings.xml file, you can use -DaltDeploymentRepository option. Example:

$ mvn deploy -DaltDeploymentRepository="otherRepoReleases::default::https://otherartifactory:8180/artifactory/otherRepoReleases"

Surely the repository requires authentication that you can configure in settings.xml as shown above.