If I use the UI Console to add a jar file to our Apache Archiva Maven Repo the version number is added to the jar file, but that's not what we want. For example if you browse http://mvnrepository.com/ to get a jar to download the version is a sub folder and not attached to the jar file name.
As you can see below I'm trying to add a 3rd party Jar to the repo via the UI but the version gets attached to the name.
Collection: /com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/sqljdbc41/4.1.5605.100
com/microsoft/sqlserver/jdbc/sqljdbc41 (Parent)
Name
Size (Bytes)
Last Modified
maven-metadata.xml 184 12/08/16 11:30
maven-metadata.xml.md5 52 12/08/16 11:04
maven-metadata.xml.sha1 60 12/08/16 11:04
sqljdbc41-4.1.5605.100.jar 586192 12/08/16 11:04
sqljdbc41-4.1.5605.100.jar.md5 60 12/08/16 11:04
sqljdbc41-4.1.5605.100.jar.sha1 68 12/08/16 11:04
sqljdbc41-4.1.5605.100.pom 417 12/08/16 11:04
sqljdbc41-4.1.5605.100.pom.md5 60 12/08/16 11:04
sqljdbc41-4.1.5605.100.pom.sha1 68 12/08/16 11:04
Much obliged for any help. Mike
Archiva (and other repos) keeps artifacts and version is essential. So the question is badly formulated. There could be a question how to DOWNLOAD artifact without version (thanks to Atmesh Mishra).
Solution 1 with Archiva API: How do I download programmatically a single artifact from apache archiva using REST?
Solution 2 with maven dependency plugin: goal dependency:copy with option parameter stripVersion=true: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/copy-mojo.html#stripVersion