MAVEN Assembly plugin

Question

i am new to maven. I am trying to zip some content and put it in a desired location but while using the Assembly Plugin the zip file is getting created in the 'target' folder of my project. How can I save it in a desired location ??

Answer 1

please add below line to your pom.xml inside assembly plugin configuration

   <configuration>
      <outputDirectory>output/directory</outputDirectory>
    </configuration>

For outputDirectory set the path where you want save your zip file.