Importing a jar file into robocode doesnt work

Question

I am using robocode 1.9.2.6

I created a simple maven project for my robot. When I import the generated the jar into Robocode UI, Robot-> Import Robot. It says robot imported successfully and the jar file is copied into the robots folder.

After that when I create a new Battle my robot doesnt appear. Tried refreshing and clean cache.

When I set path of my class folder in the preferences->development it works.

Let me know if more information is needed.

Answer 1

From what I can tell from the question, I guess you haven't included the file MyRobotName.properties in the resulting .jar . Did you build the .jar using Maven?

Try packaging the robot with Robocode itself (using the built-in packager) as follows:

• Add your development path as you have written above.
• In the menu bar, go to Robot - Package robot or team and add your (development version of the) robot.

The resulting .jar file should be found in Robocode.

Alternatively, you can surely configure your build process in a way such that it creates the .properties file for you. Just have a look at the one created by the Robocode packager and reconstruct it. That's what I do in my Gradle build process.