How to Deploy Maven Artifacts to WebDAV Repository

Either the DAV wagon is great or DreamHost's Svn+WebDAV integration is great, or both. POM Configuration is straightforward:

<distributionManagement>
<snapshotRepository>
<id>soluvas.org.snapshots.tmp</id>
<url>dav:http://maven.soluvas.org/snapshots</url>
</snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>

It "works" in Eclipse sometimes, but when the artifact has not yet been uploaded (huh?!?!) it fails with:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.5:deploy (default-deploy) on project soluvas-apacheds: Failed to deploy artifacts: Could not find artifact org.soluvas.apacheds:soluvas-apacheds:jar:1.0.0-20120329.222133-1 in soluvas.org.snapshots.tmp (dav:http://maven.soluvas.org/snapshots) -> [Help 1]

In mvn CLI, it simply fails: [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.5:deploy (default-deploy) on project soluvas-apacheds: Failed to deploy artifacts/metadata: No connector available to access repository soluvas.org.snapshots.tmp (dav:http://maven.soluvas.org/snapshots) of type default using the available factories WagonRepositoryConnectorFactory -> [Help 1]

Anyway, to properly do this you need a wagon config, which works well with DreamHost's subversion+webDAV (haven't tried with plain Webdav repository yet, but should work):
<build>
<extensions>
<extension>
<artifactId>wagon-webdav-jackrabbit</artifactId>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.wagon</groupId>
<version>2.2</version>
</extension>
</extensions>
</build>

then you add your credentials in ~/.m2/settings.xml :

<settings 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/settings-1.0.0.xsd">

<servers>

<server>

<id>soluvas.org.snapshots.tmp</id>

<username>youruser</username>

<password>yourpass</password>

</server>

</servers>

...

</settings>

Now you can deploy your Maven project by:

mvn source:jar javadoc:jar install deploy

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