Once saved in eclipse, copy project to a different directory

Question

Using Eclipse, is there a way to automatically copy a file/project's directory to a different path once it's saved?

Effectively, when i save a file, it copies it from the workspace to the deploy directory

Workspace: "/code/my_app"
deploy to: "/application/plugins/my_app"

EDIT:

This is Mainly for Python and PHP projects

Answer 1

You can do that with Apache Ant pretty easily. There's even an Ant View in eclipse to run the script from. See the copy task.

Here's a sample ant build.xml file:

<project name="whatever" default="copy">
    <target name="copy">
        <copy todir="someDir">
          <fileset dir="someOtherDir/" casesensitive="yes">
            <include name="**/*.java"/>
            <exclude name="**/*Test*"/>
          </fileset>
        </copy>
    </target>
</project>

You can also add more targets for deploying your application.

Answer 2

Try “Ant Builder” :).

i have not tried this but this looks nearly what you want.