The deploymentSettings
worked however I wanted to refine the settings. It seems there were several issues going on. I and finally came up with the following solution:
//--use sbt-native-packager default java application
packageArchetype.java_application
//--a dummy task to hold the result of the universal:packageBin to stop the circular dependency issue
val packageZip = taskKey[File]("package-zip")
//--hard coded result of "universal:packageBin"
packageZip := (baseDirectory in Compile).value / "target" / "universal" / (name.value + "-" + version.value + ".zip")
//--label the zip artifact as a zip instead of the default jar
artifact in (Universal, packageZip) ~= { (art:Artifact) => art.copy(`type` = "zip", extension = "zip") }
//--add the artifact so it is included in the publishing tasks
addArtifact(artifact in (Universal, packageZip), packageZip in Universal)
//--make sure the zip gets made before the publishing commands for the added artifacts
publish := (publish dependsOn (packageBin in Universal)).value
publishM2 := (publishM2 dependsOn (packageBin in Universal)).value
publishLocal := (publishLocal dependsOn (packageBin in Universal)).value
The key pieces of this solution came from a comment from yanns and dgrandes