Publishing JNA to Maven Central

One Time

• Create an account for the maven central repository (Register to Publish Via the Central Portal)

• Get the account enabled for publishing to the net.java.dev.jna groupId (contact an existing uploader for this)

• Set up your gpg keys as described here. Make sure you distribute your public key.

• Make sure you have a settings.xml file (in directory: ${user.home}/.m2/). For example (Replace central-user and central-password with the credentials you can create via "View Account" -> "Generate User Token"):

  xmlCopy

  <settings>
  ...
      <servers>
      ...
          <server>
              <id>sonatype-central-portal-snapshots</id>
              <username>central-user</username>
              <password>central-password</password>
          </server>
      ...
      </servers>
  ...
  <settings>
  

  These settings are only used for uploading SNAPSHOTs. See: Publishing -SNAPSHOT Releases for more info.

Publish Snapshot

At any time and in preparation for a release

Before doing a full jna release, we can publish a development SNAPSHOT of the "next" release for people to test. The SNAPSHOT will be published in the staging repository:

https://central.sonatype.com/repository/maven-snapshots/

To publish a development SNAPSHOT do the following:

    git checkout -- .
    ant clean
    ant deploy

Note: Unlike stable, unchanging releases, a SNAPSHOT may be re-published at any time (and is typically deleted after a full release is performed).

Publish Release

• Verify the <version> tags in pom-jna.xml and pom-jna-platform.xml match the version (jna.version) in build.xml.
• Run ant -Dmaven-release=true stage. This builds JNA and creates a ZIP file build/maven-artifacts.zip. That file can be used to deploy to maven central using the manual Publishing By Uploading a Bundle process.