It's a utility library that helps working with a DevWorkspace. It's created mainly for using by Eclipse Che®'s IDEA editor.
Make sure your settings.xml
contains:
<settings>
<servers>
<server>
<id>ossrh</id>
<username><!-- sonatype username --></username>
<password><!-- sonatype password --></password>
</server>
</servers>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>ossrh</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<properties>
<gpg.executable>gpg2</gpg.executable>
<gpg.passphrase><!-- passprhase --></gpg.passphrase>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
</settings>
Do a release:
mvn release:clean release:prepare -DdryRun=true
mvn release:prepare
mvn release:perform
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