In the previous section, you created a Staging Profile which references the Repository Target created in Section 9.7, “Configuring a Repository Target”. If the Staging Suite is configured correctly, any deployment to the staging URL under the groupId com.sonatype.sample should be intercepted by the Staging Suite and placed in a temporary staging repository. Once this repository has been closed, it will be made available in the Target Group you selected when you configured the Staging Profile in Section 9.8, “Configuring Staging Profiles”.

In this section, you will create a new project using the Maven Archetype plugin to test the Staging Profile you created in the previous section.