Abuild's Groovy backend provides a default directory structure that it uses by convention when performing Java builds. It is possible to override all of these paths by setting specific parameters as described in Section 19.6, “Advanced Customization of Java Rules”. In this section, we just provide a quick overview of the default paths.

All paths are relative to the build item directory. Note that abuild-java is the abuild output directory for Java builds. All directories under abuild-java are created automatically if needed. All other directories are optional: abuild will use them if they exist but will not complain if they are missing. Note that the clean target removes the entire abuild output directory.