Providing the link to the hosted jar file in sonatype

README.md

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 ## Getting Started
 
+You can either [download](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/io/smartdatalake/sdl-lsp/1.0-SNAPSHOT/) the jar and jump directly to [Setting a basic LSP client in Intellij](#Setting-a-basic-LSP-client-in-Intellij) or compile and generate the jar yourself.
+
+To download it, go [here](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/io/smartdatalake/sdl-lsp/1.0-SNAPSHOT/) and take the one finishing with `XXX-jar-with-dependencies.jar`.
+You can now read [Setting a basic LSP client in Intellij](#Setting-a-basic-LSP-client-in-Intellij).
+
+If you prefer build the jar, follow the instructions below.
+
 ### Dependencies
 To be able to build an executable jar with this project, you will need:
 * maven
@@ -32,17 +39,12 @@ To be able to build an executable jar with this project, you will need:
 * Click on the gear aside `Marketplace` and `Installed` and click on `Install Plugin from disk...`. Add the downloaded plugin.
 * Go to `Settings > Languages & Frameworks > Language Server Protocol > Server definitions`
 * Choose `Raw command | Extension: conf | Command: java -jar ${path-to-project}/target/sdl-lsp-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar`. Be sure you ran `mvn clean package` before.
+Please adapt the name if you downloaded the jar.
 * A red, yellow or green dot should have appeared in the bottom of your IDE. Red just means the LSP is inactive, yellow means the LSP is initializing and green means up and running. You can check timeouts, restart the server or check the connected files.
 
 
 ## Authors
 [scalathe](https://github.com/dsalathe)
 
 ## License
-TODO
-
-This project is licensed under the [NAME HERE] License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
-
-## Acknowledgments
-
-TODO
+This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3 - see the LICENSE.txt file for details

pom.xml

@@ -205,6 +205,9 @@
       </distributionManagement>
       <build>
         <plugins>
+          <!-- Builds an empty javadoc jar to be able to publish the jar into sonatype.
+           There is incompatibilities with scala-maven-plugin with the goal doc-jar and scala 3 currently (2023-11-24).
+           Please feel free to actually generate the javadoc once the incompatibility is resolved. -->
           <plugin>
             <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
             <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>