Question

I wish to copy the executable jar file of a project immediately after its building completes to another folder location.

I do have a batch file to do that but, I wish to automate that in such a way that it is executed as and when the build finishes ….. !

How can I do it ?

Please help!

Answer 1

I guess by editing the Build.xml file one can try copying the file automatically to a desired location.
This is the Build.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="testBuildXml" default="default" basedir=".">
<description>Builds, tests, and runs the project testBuildXml.</description>
<import file="nbproject/build-impl.xml"/>
<property name="src"     value="<path-to-your-batch-file>"/>
<target name="**-post-jar**">
    <exec dir="${src}" executable="cmd.exe">
        <arg line="/c copy.bat"/>
    </exec>
</target>
</project>

“-post-jar” allows the batch to execute only after the jar building process is complete.
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