This is mostly a 4.0+ concern but we'll add some notes at this stage.
We deploy to the sonatype repsitory which eventually puts stuff in maven central.
- Commit all your changes
You're presumably working on a SNAPSHOT version - commit anything that's outstanding.
Before doing so make sure the project pom.xml corresponds t all the rquirements. bw-util, bw-webdav are a couple of examples. - Execute this:
mvn release:clean release:prepare