Archive the artifacts in Jenkins
Could someone please explain to me the idea of artifacts in the 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? In the workspace directory? My jar file gets a unique filename depending on variables like BUILD_ID and such, how can I tell Jenkins which jar file to pick? EDIT: Okay, so i tried doing something like this: The path does not exist yet in my workspace, because