How to place the output jar into another folder with maven?

Question

I'd like to place my output jar and jar-with-dependencies into another folder (not in target/ but in ../libs/).

How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can use the outputDirectory parameter of the maven-jar-plugin for this purpose:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      ...
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <outputDirectory>../libs</outputDirectory>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

But as cdegroot wrote, you should probably better not fight the maven way.