You can use the liberty:deploy goal to deploy an application to a Liberty profile server.
The liberty:deploy goal deploys the specified application to the dropins/ directory of the Liberty profile server. The server must exist and must be running.
The following table describes parameters of the deploy goal.
Parameter | Description | Required |
---|---|---|
serverHome | Directory location of the Liberty profile server installation. | Yes, only when assemblyArchive and assemblyArtifact parameters are not set. |
assemblyArchive | Location of the Liberty profile server compressed archive. The archive will be unpacked into a directory as specified by the installDirectory parameter. | Yes, only when serverHome and assemblyArtifact parameters are not set. |
assemblyArtifact | Maven artifact name of the Liberty profile server assembly. The assembly will be installed into a directory as specified by the installDirectory parameter. For more information on Liberty profile server Maven assemblies, see Liberty profile: Installation as a Maven artifact. | Yes, only when serverHome and assemblyArchive parameters are not set. |
installDirectory | Local installation directory location of the Liberty profile server when the server is installed using the assembly archive or artifact option. The default value is ${project.build.directory} /liberty. | No |
refresh | If true, re-install Liberty profile server into the local directory. This is only used when when the server is installed using the assembly archive or artifact option. The default value is false. | No |
serverName | Name of the Liberty profile server instance. The default value is defaultServer. | No |
appArchive | Location of an application file to be deployed.
The application type can be war, ![]() |
Yes, if appArtifact parameter is not set. |
appArtifact | Maven artifact name of an application to be deployed. The application type can be war, ear, rar, eba, zip, or jar. Since liberty-maven-plugin version 1.1. | Yes, if appArchive parameter is not set. |
timeout | Maximum time to wait (in milliseconds) to verify that the deployment has completed successfully. The default value is 40 seconds. | No |
<build>
...
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.ibm.websphere.wlp.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>liberty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<executions>
...
<execution>
<id>deploy-app</id>
<phase>pre-integration-test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>deploy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<appArchive>HelloWorld.war</appArchive>
</configuration>
</execution>
...
<executions>
<configuration>
<serverHome>/opt/ibm/wlp</serverHome>
<serverName>test</serverName>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
...
</build>
mvn liberty:deploy -DserverHome=/opt/ibm/wlp -DserverName=test
-DappArchive=/tmp/HelloWorld.war