is it possible to filter artifacts in Maven-release-plugin?

Question

Is it possible to exclude some artifacts during release:prepare or release:perform? We don't need all the artifacts put on nexus, only two main ones.

Answer 1

I believe what you actually want to do is to release all modules (to handle proper versioning, dependencies, etc.) and only skip deploying some of them.

If so, you can skip particular module for maven-deploy-plugin by its configuration:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <skip>true</skip>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

or user property:

<properties>
    <maven.deploy.skip>true</maven.deploy.skip>
</properties>