How to place the output jar into another folder with maven?
MavenJarMaven Problem Overview
I'd like to place my output jar and jar-with-dependencies into another folder (not in target/ but in ../libs/).
How can I do that?
Maven Solutions
Solution 1 - Maven
You can use the outputDirectory parameter of the maven-jar-plugin for this purpose:
<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.1</version>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>../libs</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
...
</project>
But as cdegroot wrote, you should probably better not fight the maven way.
Solution 2 - Maven
If you want to copy the artifact into a directory outside your project, solutions might be:
maven-jar-pluginand configureoutputDirectorymaven-antrun-pluginand copy taskcopy-maven-pluginby Evgeny Goldin
Example for the copy-maven-plugin is:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.goldin</groupId>
<artifactId>copy-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.2.5</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy-to-local-directory</id>
<phase>install</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<skipIdentical>false</skipIdentical>
<failIfNotFound>false</failIfNotFound>
<resources>
<resource>
<description>Copy artifact to another directory</description>
<targetPath>/your/local/path</targetPath>
<directory>${project.build.directory}</directory>
<includes>
<include>*.jar</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Solution 3 - Maven
Another way would be maven-resources-plugin (find the current version here):
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-files-on-build</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/[TO-DIR]</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>[FROM-DIR]</directory>
<!--<include>*.[MIME-TYPE]</include>-->
<filtering>false</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Solution 4 - Maven
I would do it this way:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.8</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>install</phase>
<configuration>
<target>
<copy file="target/${project.artifactId}-exec.jar" tofile="../../docker/${project.artifactId}.jar"/>
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Solution 5 - Maven
This technique worked well for me:
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/examples/copying-artifacts.html
<project>
[...]
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<artifactItems>
<artifactItem>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<overWrite>false</overWrite>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/alternateLocation</outputDirectory>
<destFileName>optional-new-name.jar</destFileName>
</artifactItem>
</artifactItems>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/wars</outputDirectory>
<overWriteReleases>false</overWriteReleases>
<overWriteSnapshots>true</overWriteSnapshots>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
[...]
</project>
Solution 6 - Maven
I specially like the solution using maven-resources-plugin (see here) because is already included in maven, so no extra download is needed, and also is very configurable to do the copy at a specific phase of your project (see here to learn & understand about phases). And the best part of this approach is that it won't mess up any previous processes or build you had before :)
<project>
...
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<!-- here the phase you need -->
<phase>validate</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>/dir/where/you/want/to/put/jar</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>/dir/where/you/have/the/jar</directory>
<filtering>false</filtering>
<includes>
<include>file-you-want-to.jar</include>
<include>another-file-you-want-to.jar</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
...
</build>
...
</project>
Of course you can also use interpolated variables like ${baseDir} and other good stuff like that all over your XML. And you could use wild cards as they explain here