JCenter - Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase: Unauthorized

Question

When deploying with $mvn deploy for a linked artifact into JCenter, I get this error Return code is: 401, ReasonPhrase: Unauthorized.

What is causing this, and how to fix this?

Answer 1

Solution is to have this in the artifact's pom.xml

<distributionManagement>
    <snapshotRepository>
        <id>bintray-yourusername-maven-yourpackagename</id> <!-- same id with the server in settings.xml -->
        <name>oss-jfrog-artifactory-snapshots</name>
        <url>http://oss.jfrog.org/artifactory/oss-snapshot-local</url>
    </snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>

And have this in the settings.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<settings xsi:schemaLocation='http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd'
          xmlns='http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'>
   <servers>
        <server>
            <id>bintray-yourusername-maven-yourpackagename</id> <!-- same id with the snapshotRepository -->
            <username>yourusername</username>
            <password>your_api_key</password>
        </server>
    </servers>
    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <repositories>
                <repository>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>false</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                    <id>central</id>
                    <name>bintray</name>
                    <url>http://jcenter.bintray.com</url>
                </repository>
            </repositories>
            <pluginRepositories>
                <pluginRepository>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>false</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                    <id>central</id>
                    <name>bintray-plugins</name>
                    <url>http://jcenter.bintray.com</url>
                </pluginRepository>
            </pluginRepositories>
            <id>bintray</id>
        </profile>
    </profiles>
    <activeProfiles>
        <activeProfile>bintray</activeProfile>
    </activeProfiles>
</settings>