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Apache has 2 official maven repositories for incubating projects (see http://apache.org/dev/repository-faq.html ). The repositories are on people.apache.org/repo/:
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which works if you have putty installed (be sure to point at your own privateKey file, and start Pageant). More info about this here: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/examples/deploy-ssh-external.html
Then, to do a deployment, execute the following command (from the uimaj directory):
mvn source:jar deploy
The source:jar builds a jar having all the sources, signs it, and deploys it. Our uimaj POM specifies both a regular repository location and a snapshot repository location, following the above conventions.
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