deploying-in-legacy-layout.md.vm

---
title: Deploy an artifact in legacy layout
author: 
  - Allan Ramirez
date: 2006-06-21
---

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# Deploy an artifact in legacy layout

&quot;Legacy&quot; is the layout used in maven 1 repositories while maven 2 uses &quot;default&quot;\. They are different in terms of directory structure, timestamp of snapshots in default and existence of metadata files in default\.

- legacy layout directory structure:

    ```unknown
      groupId
      |--artifactId
         |--jars
            `--artifact
    ```

- default layout directory structure:

    ```unknown
      groupId
      |--artifactId
         |--version
         |  `---artifact
         |---metadata
    ```

    In able to deploy an artifact in a legacy layout of repository, set the **repositoryLayout** parameter to `legacy` value\.

    ```unknown
    mvn ${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}:${project.version}:deploy-file -Durl=file:///C:/m2-repo \
                                                                                -DrepositoryId=some.id \
                                                                                -Dfile=your-artifact-1.0.jar \
                                                                                -DpomFile=your-pom.xml \
                                                                                -DrepositoryLayout=legacy
    ```

    **Note**: By using the fully qualified path of a goal, you&apos;re ensured to be using the preferred version of the maven\-deploy\-plugin\. When using `mvn deploy:deploy-file` its version depends on its specification in the pom or the version of Apache Maven\.