Downloading Nexus artifacts to Jenkins Job workspace

Question

I have an use case where I need to download selected jar files from nexus repository to a Jenkins job workspace and run a program over the downloaded jar files. (I Want to use the .class files in the jars)

Is there any Jenkins plugin available for this?

Answer 1

Add a build-step in the job, prior to the one doing the actual work
and use a copy (or ftp) command to get the files.

Answer 2

You could try the groovy plugin and embed a script within your Jenkins job