GitHub Release Pipeline for Java

Fri, 14 May 2021 00:00:00 +0200

Goals

Set up Maven build pipeline for a Java 11 app
Release Maven artifact on GitHub using GitHub actions

Setup Maven

Assuming that we have a project named sample-app released for my hascode GitHub account:

We’re adding some release information to our project’s pom.xml:

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.hascode</groupId>
  <artifactId>sample-app</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>bookmark-manager
  <name>sample-app</name>
  <description>hasCode.com Bookmark Manager</description>


  <scm>
    <developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/hascode/sample-app.git
    </developerConnection>
  </scm>


  <distributionManagement>
    <repository>
      <id>github</id>
      <name>GitHub</name>
      <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/hascode/sample-app</url>
    </repository>
  </distributionManagement>


  <properties>
    <java.version>11</java.version>
    <project.scm.id>github</project.scm.id>
  </properties>

  [..]
</project>

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GitHub Release Pipeline for Java

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