Copying files from my project in Maven

Question

Is it possible to copy folders from my project to a certain location during some Maven phase? Does anybody know how?

Answer 1

The Maven way of doing this would be using the copy-resources goal in maven-resources-plugin

From http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/copy-resources.html

<project>   ...   <build>     <plugins>       <plugin>         <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>         <version>2.7</version>         <executions>           <execution>             <id>copy-resources</id>             <!-- here the phase you need -->             <phase>validate</phase>             <goals>               <goal>copy-resources</goal>             </goals>             <configuration>               <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target/extra-resources</outputDirectory>               <resources>                           <resource>                   <directory>src/non-packaged-resources</directory>                   <filtering>true</filtering>                 </resource>               </resources>                           </configuration>                       </execution>         </executions>       </plugin>     </plugins>     ...   </build>   ... </project> 

Answer 2

Take a look at the maven-antrun plugin. You can copy a file in any maven phase like this:

    <plugin>       <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>       <version>1.4</version>       <executions>         <execution>           <id>copy</id>           <phase>compile</phase>           <configuration>             <tasks>               <copy file="myFileSource" tofile="MyFileDest"/>             </tasks>           </configuration>           <goals>             <goal>run</goal>           </goals>         </execution>        </executions>     </plugin>