Question

How to remove generated build artifacts from Maven’s target directory? Maven generates a jar or war file to target directory. I’d like to remove that file after maven has installed the jar/war file to local repository (that is, after maven has executed the ‘install’ goal). The remove could happen either at install goal or separate goal I execute manually.

Note, that I’d like leave other parts of target directory intact, for example target/site and target/surefire-reports.

Answer 1

Just use the clean plugin and run an execution after the install phase:

  <plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.2</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>auto-clean</id>
        <phase>install</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>clean</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <filesets>
            <fileset>
              <directory>${project.build.outputDirectory}</directory>
              <includes>
                <include>**/*.jar</include>
              </includes>
            </fileset>
           </filesets>
         </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>