POC/early draft of a plugin which attaches already built artifacts to the maven build.

The primary purpose of this plugin is to allow independent execution of the maven-deploy-plugin's deploy:deploy goal without the prior build stages in Maven.

The deploy:deploy goal requires artifacts to already be attached to the build. If those artifacts are not attached the following error is raised: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.8:deploy (default-cli) on project: The packaging for this project did not assign a file to the build artifact -> [Help 1]

This plugin quickly attaches the already generated artifacts so that the deploy:deploy goal can take place without needing to call all lifecycle phases leading up to deploy.

This is useful in situations where a prior process (Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.) has already built the artifacts for the repo and you need to simply deploy them. The plugin minimizes build times by not necessitating a full rebuild in order to deploy.

mvn com.attach.existing.artifacts.plugin:attach-existing-artifacts-maven-plugin:attachExisting

With deployment:

mvn com.attach.existing.artifacts.plugin:attach-existing-artifacts-maven-plugin:attachExisting deploy:deploy