Import/Export

The Import/Export feature enables to "dump" and "reload" a local repository to and from a standard Maven 2 file-based repository layout: groupId/artifactId/version/file.

Using the Import/Export feature you can create multiples trees of artifacts (3rdp-releases, plugins-releases, libs-releases, ...) with exactly what you need (POM, jars, ear, zip, classifier, ...) and then import each tree into a specific local repository.

ATTENTION: It is not recommended to bulk import artifacts from Maven's user local repository, since such repositories hold different metadata than deploym,ent repositories. If, however, you attempt to make such an import, make sure to remove any local metadata files (such as maven-metadata-central.xml).

Nevertheless, It is strongly advised to import only from deployment repositories.

NOTE: Since a long running database transaction will be created, it is sometimes easier (even necessary) to import into the same local repository different blocks of artifacts.

Since the beginning of Artifactory, the Import/Export feature was used to migrate repositories from earlier versions.

Deploying with Maven Deploy Plugin

You can use the maven deploy plugin directly with a command like: 

mvn deploy:deploy-file -DrepositoryId=my-artifactory \
                    -Durl=http://localhost:8080/artifactory/libs-snapshots@repo \
                    -DgroupId=test -DartifactId=test -Dversion=1.0-SNAPSHOT -Dpackaging=jar \
                    -Dfile=test.jar
NOTE: the repositoryId my-artifactory should be a server id declared in maven settings.xml. You will get a 401 error if there is no valid username/password provided for deploying to Artifactory.

If you want to use another wagon (like dav for example), you can run the above command in the same directory where this dummy pom.xml sits: 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.artifactory.deploy-test</groupId>
    <artifactId>aye</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <distributionManagement>
        <repository>
            <id>snapshots</id>
            <url>dav:http://localhost:8080/artifactory/libs-snapshots</url>
        </repository>
    </distributionManagement>

    <build>
        <extensions>
            <extension>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
                <artifactId>wagon-webdav</artifactId>
                <version>1.0-beta-2</version>
            </extension>
        </extensions>
    </build>
</project>