Error message artifacts jar doesn t match anything even artifacts doesn t exist

Question

Can someone explain the concept of artifacts in build process. I have the workspace directory where I check out the code to compile and run my ant scripts etc. At the end, in my case, I get a jar file that's ready to install. Is that considered to be the artifact? Where should I tell my build script to put the jar file?

I'm getting this error:

artifacts/*.jar doesn’t match anything: even ‘artifacts’ doesn’t exist

Answer 1

Artifacts store any data that is created as the side effect of running the Jenkins build. Each artefact is associated to only one build, but each build can have many artifacts.

A common convention is to put the result of a build into a build, target or bin directory.

The Jenkins archiver can use globs (target/*.jar) to easily pick up the right file even if you have a unique name per build.