webdav

Normally you deploy to a third party repository with a command similar to:

mvn deploy:deploy-file -Dfile=/path/to/file -DrepositoryId=repositoryId
-Durl=wagon:protocol://path/to/repo -DgroupId=groupId -DartifactId=artifactId
-Dversion=version -Dpackaging=packageType

But - to deploy via webdav needs a snapshot wagon.

To do this - create a temporary pom in the directory you are in (create a scratch dir or similar). This should contain:

There are several reasons you may need to add a self-signed https ssl certificate to your local java keystore.

For me - its so that maven can access DAV shares for repository deployment.