Deploying applications to Open Liberty Server using Liberty Maven plugin

Open Liberty provides an official maven plugin for application deployment.

<!-- Enable liberty-maven-plugin -->
<plugin>
	<groupId>io.openliberty.tools</groupId>
	<artifactId>liberty-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>3.1</version>
</plugin> 

liberty:dev provides a dev mode for developers.

liberty:run is easy to run the application on a local Open Liberty server. If the server does not exist, it will download it automatically.

liberty:deploy will copy applications to the Liberty server’s dropins or apps directory, If the server instance is running, it will also verify the applications started successfully.

Unluckily, liberty maven plugin does not support deployment to remote Liberty Server, see issue #245.

More info about Liberty maven plugin, see here.