How to run a jar file generated by maven in Jenkins Job Builder

Question

I have a maven project (assume it is just a simple hello-world java program) in git. Now I want to (1) create the jar file; (2) run this jar file. How can I do this through Jenkins Job Builder hourly (like every one hour Jenkins will build the jar file, and execute it)? Thanks.

Solution

First of all, create a Jenkins Freestyle Project.

TZ=Asia/Kolkata
0 */1 * * *

Please add the above code in Build periodically box. It will run your code once an hour. For creating the jar file,

cd '<your project location in the disk>'
mvn clean install

Now this will build your jar file. To run the jar file,

cd 'target'
java -jar <project jar file name>.jar

So total script will be like :

cd '<your project location in the disk>'
mvn clean install
cd 'target'
java -jar <project jar file name>.jar

Add the above code to Execute shell block in Build -> Add build step -> Execute shell in the job configuration. Hope this is what you are looking for.

Comments

[Night Programmer]

means you want executable jar file, Can you explain more?

[batilei]

Hello Sandip, generally yes, want a jar and execute in Jenkins job. Answer given by Madhava below basically solves my problem. Thanks