Deploying war files to the dropins directory is not sufficient for applications that need to specify security roles in server.xml.

I know I will have to edit server.xml to add these other elements, but I will only have to do it once. I'm hoping to use the websphere-deployer-plugin to update applications (CI) running on a remote Liberty instance.

I considered fixing it myself, but I can't seem to get the plugin to build. It's missing a number of dependencies:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project websphere-deployer: Could not resolve dependencies for project org.jenkins-ci.plugins:websphere-deployer:hpi:1.3-SNAPSHOT: The following artifacts could not be resolved: com.ibm.ws:admin:jar:8.5.0, com.ibm.ws:orb:jar:8.5.0, com.ibm.ws:liberty-connector:jar:8.5.5, com.ibm.ws:liberty-rest-connector:jar:8.5.5, com.ibm.ws:liberty-basic:jar:8.5.5, com.ibm.ws:liberty-endpoint:jar:8.5.5, org.tmatesoft.sqljet:sqljet:jar:1.1.0, de.regnis.q.sequence:sequence-library:jar:1.0.1, org.netbeans.modules:org-netbeans-insane:jar:RELEASE72: Failure to find com.ibm.ws:admin:jar:8.5.0 in http://nexus.sl.cloud9.ibm.com:8081/nexus/content/groups/public was cached in the local repository, resolution will not be reattempted until the update interval of nexus has elapsed or updates are forced -> [Help 1]