Access Maven build properties in Jenkins post-build script to retrieve deployed artifact

Question

I've got a Maven project that Jenkins builds and deploys to a remote repository. I then need to copy the deployed .war to an external location. I've been trying to do this with a post-build shell script but I don't see any way to get the build information from maven (for example, the URL of the deployed artifact). Is there a way to get it, or a way to do this that's more integrated into maven? I can calculate the deployment path using Jenkins build parameters but it seems like a hack.

Thanks, Steve

Answer 1

After a maven build you should always find the build artifact at

target/<artifactId>-<version>.<packaging>

You can access this path within the maven pom.xml by using the maven properties (see pom reference )

${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.${project.packaging}

To copy the artifact to another location after the build you can use several approaches described eg in this thread .