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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

I know that .jar files are basically archives as well as being applications. What I'm asking is how can I store data(actual files not just strings) packed inside my program? I want to do this within my Java code. The reason for this if your wondering is that I'm producing a server mod of a game. The server starts and creates all the level data and I want to store all these file inside my .jar app. Yes you can do this. Non-code resources in a JAR file on the classpath can be access using Class.getResourceAsStream(String) . Applications routinely do this, for example, to embed internationalized

How do I extract a tar (or tar.gz, or tar.bz2) file in Java? erickson Note: This functionality was later published through a separate project, Apache Commons Compress, as described in another answer. This answer is out of date. I haven't used a tar API directly, but tar and bzip2 are implemented in Ant; you could borrow their implementation, or possibly use Ant to do what you need. Gzip is part of Java SE (and I'm guessing the Ant implementation follows the same model). GZIPInputStream is just an InputStream decorator. You can wrap, for example, a FileInputStream in a GZIPInputStream and use