src/site/markdown/examples/deploying-with-classifiers.md.vm

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title: Deploy an artifact with classifier
author: 
  - Robert Scholte
date: 2013-09-01
---

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# Deploy an artifact with classifier

Beside the main artifact there can be additional files which are attached to the Maven project\. Such attached files can be recognized and accessed by their classifier\.

For example: from the following artifact names, the classifier is located between the version and extension name of the artifact\.

- `artifact-name-1.0.jar` the main jar which contains classes compiled without [debugging](https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/compile-mojo.html#debug) information \(such as linenumbers\)
- `artifact-name-1.0-debug.jar` the classified jar which contains classes compiled with [debugging](https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-compiler-plugin/compile-mojo.html#debug) information, so will be larger
- `artifact-name-1.0-site.pdf` a pdf which contains an export of the site documentation\. 

You can deploy the main artifact and the classified artifacts in a single run\. Let&apos;s assume the original filename for the documentation is `site.pdf`: 

```unknown
mvn ${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}:${project.version}:deploy-file -Durl=http://localhost:8081/repomanager/ \
                                                                            -DrepositoryId=some.id \
                                                                            -Dfile=path/to/artifact-name-1.0.jar \
                                                                            -DpomFile=path-to-your-pom.xml \
                                                                            -Dfiles=path/to/artifact-name-1.0-debug.jar,path/to/site.pdf \
                                                                            -Dclassifiers=debug,site \
                                                                            -Dtypes=jar,pdf
```

If you only want to deploy the `debug`\-jar and want to keep the classifier, you can execute the `deploy-file` like

```unknown
mvn ${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}:${project.version}:deploy-file -Durl=http://localhost:8081/repomanager/ \
                                                                            -DrepositoryId=some.id \
                                                                            -Dfile=path-to-your-artifact-jar \
                                                                            -DpomFile=path-to-your-pom.xml \
                                                                            -Dclassifier=bin
```

**Note**: By using the fully qualified path of a goal, you&apos;re ensured to be using the preferred version of the maven\-deploy\-plugin\. When using `mvn deploy:deploy-file` its version depends on its specification in the pom or the version of Apache Maven\.