Publish JARs and WARs in a multi-project build

Help/Discuss
1

I have a somewhat large multi-project build (80+ projects) which produces mostly JARs and a few WARs. Obviously, the WARs contain many of the JARs from other projects. I want to publish all of them to a Nexus repository, but I only want the WAR projects to publish a WAR, not a WAR + JAR.

Originally, I had a ‘publishing’ block in my top-level build and all projects would inherit this, which would cause a JAR to be published. I then added another ‘publishing’ block to the WAR projects so that they would publish a WAR. However, they would create both a JAR and a WAR, which is not quite what I want. I see possible solutions as:

  1. Manually specify whether to publish a JAR or WAR in each project (kinda sucks, what I’m doing for now)
  2. Assume a project publishes a JAR unless a WAR is indicated
    a. Somehow remove the JAR publish info–how to do this???
    b. Disable the JAR publishing task–not sure how to do this exactly, either???
  3. Something clever I haven’t thought of???

Any ideas?

2

Would it help if you iterated across all projects over all tasks of type JAR and WAR (separately)? Inside the loop, you could then create the appropriate publish block.