Maven won't deploy on Sonatype Nexus Repository - apache

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I have installed Apache Maven 3.2.3 ([http]maven.apache.org/download.cgi?Preferred=ftp://mirror.reverse.net/pub/apache/), and it has downloaded all core plugins.
Then I installed Sonatype Nenus OSS ([http]www.sonatype.org/nexus/go/) as a WAR application on my XAMPP tomcat server.
Everything is well set and works.
My unique goal here is to test a deployment of a file from my local Maven to my Nexus repository.
Here is my POM file project:
<project xmlns="..."
xmlns:xsi="..."
xsi:schemaLocation="...">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>groupA</groupId>
<artifactId>artifactA</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>releases</id>
<url>[http]localhost:8080/nexus-2.9.2-01/content/repositories/releases</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
</project>
And here is my Maven configuration file: settings.xml
<settings xmlns="..."
xmlns:xsi="..."
xsi:schemaLocation="...">
<servers>
<server>
<id>releases</id>
<username>deployment</username>
<password>deployment123</password>
</server>
</servers>
The account provided is the default one and it works from the Nexus GUI.
My Nexus repository "releases" is configured as following:
[http]i.stack.imgur.com/Nh3dO.png
And when i use the following command:
mvn deploy
Or the following:
mvn deploy:deploy
Which are almost the same as far as I'm concerned...
Maven tells me this:
[http]i.stack.imgur.com/2vBNx.png
And the [Help 1] tells nothing but "see the plugin documentation". And the error message tells me that "The repository element is not specified in the POM file", but it actually is...
I really don't see what i am missing :/
Thanks for your help

Answer 1

Thank you all for your answers. I don't really have an idea why it works, but using these files works:
ArtifactA POM file:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>groupA</groupId>
<artifactId>artifactA</artifactId>
<version>1.2.4</version>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>nexus</id>
<name>Nexus Test Repository</name>
<url>http://localhost:8080/nexus-2.9.2-01/content/repositories/releases</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
</project>
ArtifactB POM file:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>groupA</groupId>
<artifactId>artifactB</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>groupA</groupId>
<artifactId>artifactA</artifactId>
<version>1.2.4</version>
<type>zip</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>nexus</id>
<name>Nexus Test Repository</name>
<url>http://localhost:8080/nexus-2.9.2-01/content/repositories/releases</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
</project>
Maven settings file:
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
<servers>
<server>
<id>nexus</id>
<username>admin</username>
<password>admin123</password>
</server>
</servers>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>nexus</id>
<name>Nexus Test Repository</name>
<url>http://localhost:8080/nexus-2.9.2-01/content/repositories/releases</url>
<mirrorOf>*,!central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
</settings>
Deployment script:
mvn deploy:deploy-file \
-Dfile=artifactA_package.zip \
-Dpackaging=zip \
-DpomFile=pomA1.2.4.xml \
-Durl=http://localhost:8080/nexus-2.9.2-01/content/repositories/releases \
-DrepositoryId=nexus
mvn deploy:deploy-file \
-Dfile=artifactB_package.zip \
-Dpackaging=zip \
-DpomFile=pomB1.0.0.xml \
-Durl=http://localhost:8080/nexus-2.9.2-01/content/repositories/releases \
-DrepositoryId=nexus
Hope it will help the next one :)

Answer 2

I use wagon-webdav-jackrabbit pluging in combination with something like your configurations. It enables Maven to deploy artifacts and files to WebDAV enabled servers.
http://maven.apache.org/wagon/wagon-providers/wagon-webdav-jackrabbit/
Paste this in your pom.xml
<build>
<extensions>
<extension>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
<artifactId>wagon-webdav-jackrabbit</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
</build>