Deploying with maven-antrun-plugin

I really like to use maven in my software projects but sometimes it can be a real pain in the "keyboard".

After trying to deploy a package using the maven-deploy-plugin into a ssh/sftp server without success I changed the tactical for old and very known tool: ant

Well, it just worked!

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.6</version>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>ant</groupId>
            <artifactId>ant-jsch</artifactId>
            <version>1.6.5</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.jcraft</groupId>
            <artifactId>jsch</artifactId>
            <version>0.1.44</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>               
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>upload</id>
            <phase>deploy</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <target>
                    <scp
                        todir="username:password@hostname:/path/destiny"
                        port="22" trust="true" verbose="true"
                        file="${basedir}/target/ProjectXYZ-${project.version}-dist.tar.bz2">
                    </scp>
                </target>
            </configuration>
        </execution>                   
    </executions>
</plugin>  

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.6</version>
    <configuration>
        <skip>true</skip>
    </configuration>
</plugin> 


The maven-antrun-plugin calls the ant task scp to do the transfer to the remote site and needs the declared dependencies.
The trust attribute allows me to accept unknown machines and avoid the exception if it is the case.
The verbose attribute show some progress (useful when the file is big).

The transference must be done every time I release a version of the project and so I attached it to the deploy phase. As I only need the package I deactivated the maven-deploy-plugin using the skip declaration in the configuration.
The file being transferred was build using the maven-assembly-plugin.

mvn deploy

Good, no more manual sftp.