Question

I want to update my pom.xml so that when someone uses: mvn clean package, the generated jar file is copied to the current directory. I’m looking at the maven plugin copy-resources, but i’m not sure how to specify the current directory, is there an operating system agnostic way to do this? Would like it to also work on windows, if possible

<plugin>
                    <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.4.3</version>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <id>copy-resources</id>
                            <!-- here the phase you need -->
                            <phase>validate</phase>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>copy-resources</goal>
                            </goals>
                            <configuration>
                                <outputDirectory>${basedir}</outputDirectory>
                                <resources>
                                    <resource>
                                        <directory>target/Test-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar</directory>
                                        <filtering>true</filtering>
                                    </resource>
                                </resources>
                            </configuration>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>

Thanks

Answer 1

If by current directory you mean ${project.basedir} then yes you can do this easily. Just make sure you use ${build.finalName}.jar as the file name part as it will properly get the main artifact of a project with <packaging> set to jar (the default).

    <execution>
      <id>copy-resources</id>
         <!-- here the phase you need -->
      <phase>validate</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>copy-resources</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
      <outputDirectory>${project.basedir}</outputDirectory>
      <resources>
        <resource>
          <!-- Get main artifact -->
          <directory>target/${build.finalName}.jar</directory>
          <!-- Don't filter binary files -->
          <filtering>false</filtering>
        </resource>
      </resources>
      </configuration>
    </execution>

If you wanted to do the current working directory instead you should be able to do it using ${user.dir} as the outputDirectory