Chapter 14. Artifact assembly and publishing
This chapter covers
- Building artifacts and distributions
- Publishing artifacts to local, remote, and public Maven repositories
- Artifact assembly and publishing as part of the build pipeline
As a developer, you mainly deal with two kinds of artifacts during the software development process: source code and binary artifacts as results of your build. We’ve already seen examples of binary artifacts in this book, including JAR, WAR, and ZIP files.
Source code repositories provided by version control systems like Git or Subversion are designed to manage source code. They provide features like storing the changes between two versions of a file, branching, tagging, and many more. A source code file is usually ...
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