How to use external artifact reference

The XL Deploy allows you to generate an XL Deploy deployment package with CIs that reference artifacts in external store (e.g. in maven repository or JCR repository). This sample describes a package that contains:

• WAR file petclinic: Defined in an external maven repository

  <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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
      <groupId>com.xebialabs.maven.demo</groupId>
      <artifactId>depl-7621</artifactId>
      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <packaging>pom</packaging>
  
      <properties>
          <deployit.username>admin</deployit.username>
          <deployit.password>admin</deployit.password>
          <deployit.server>localhost</deployit.server>
          <deployit.port>4516</deployit.port>
          <deployit.container>Environments/was85nd</deployit.container>
      </properties>
  
      <build>
          <plugins>
              <plugin>
                  <groupId>com.xebialabs.xldeploy</groupId>
                  <artifactId>xldeploy-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                  <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
                  <extensions>true</extensions>
  
                  <configuration>
                      <username>${deployit.username}</username>
                      <password>${deployit.password}</password>
                      <serverAddress>${deployit.server}</serverAddress>
                      <port>${deployit.port}</port>
                      <deletePreviouslyDeployedDar>true</deletePreviouslyDeployedDar>
                      <timestampedVersion>false</timestampedVersion>
                      <cancelTaskOnError>false</cancelTaskOnError>
                      <deployables>
                          <was.War name="petclinic-war">
                              <contextRoot>petclinic</contextRoot>
                              <fileUri>maven:com.xebialabs.deployit.demo.petclinic:PetClinic:war:1.0</fileUri>
                               <tags>
                                  <value>server1</value>
                               </tags>
                          </was.War>
                      </deployables>
                      <environmentId>${deployit.container}</environmentId>
                  </configuration>
              </plugin>
          </plugins>
      </build>
  </project>

• XLD needs to be configured to have access to maven repository where artifacts are stored
• maven artifact with maven GAV coordinates com.xebialabs.deployit.demo.petclinic:PetClinic:war:1.0 must be present in a maven repository configured in XLD
• generated deployment package will not contain referenced artifacts - those will be resolved by XLD directly