Gradle Artifact Publishing Concepts

External

• https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/artifact_management.html
• https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/publishing_maven.html
• https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/maven_plugin.html#uploading_to_maven_repositories

Internal

• Gradle Concepts
• Maven Publish Plugin
• Gradle Publishing Operations

Overview

Publishing plugins, such as Maven, define publishing tasks, that can be configured in build.gradle.

Artifact

Projects use Gradle to produce artifacts, also referred to as publication artifacts. Artifacts of a project are the files the project provides to the outside world.

Configuration

The configurations used to specify dependencies are also used to specify publishing artifacts.

The "archives" configuration is the standard configuration to assign artifacts to. The Java plugin automatically assigns the default jar to this configuration.

Any custom archive created as part of the build are not automatically assigned to any configuration. If such as assignment is desired, it will have to be explicitly declared.