diff --git a/plugins/ui-designer/testData/build/copyFormsRuntimeToArtifact/B.form b/plugins/ui-designer/testData/build/copyFormsRuntimeToArtifact/B.form
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1107877ed689
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/ui-designer/testData/build/copyFormsRuntimeToArtifact/B.form
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<form xmlns="http://www.intellij.com/uidesigner/form/" version="1" bind-to-class="B">
+  <grid id="27dc6" row-count="1" column-count="1" layout-manager="GridLayoutManager">
+    <margin top="0" left="0" bottom="0" right="0"/>
+    <constraints>
+      <xy x="20" y="20" width="500" height="400"/>
+      <grid row="0" column="0" row-span="1" col-span="1" vsize-policy="3" hsize-policy="3" anchor="0" fill="3" indent="0" use-parent-layout="false"/>
+    </constraints>
+    <properties/>
+    <border type="none"/>
+    <children/>
+  </grid>
+</form>
diff --git a/plugins/ui-designer/testData/build/copyFormsRuntimeToArtifact/B.java b/plugins/ui-designer/testData/build/copyFormsRuntimeToArtifact/B.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..66dd24ce6750
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/ui-designer/testData/build/copyFormsRuntimeToArtifact/B.java
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+public class B {
+}
diff --git a/plugins/ui-designer/testSrc/com/intellij/uiDesigner/make/UiDesignerExternalBuildTest.java b/plugins/ui-designer/testSrc/com/intellij/uiDesigner/make/UiDesignerExternalBuildTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..da4b4233d5ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/ui-designer/testSrc/com/intellij/uiDesigner/make/UiDesignerExternalBuildTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2000-2012 JetBrains s.r.o.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package com.intellij.uiDesigner.make;
+
+import com.intellij.compiler.artifacts.ArtifactCompilerTestCase;
+import com.intellij.openapi.application.ex.PathManagerEx;
+import com.intellij.openapi.module.Module;
+import com.intellij.openapi.util.io.FileUtil;
+import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VfsUtilCore;
+import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;
+import com.intellij.packaging.artifacts.Artifact;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * @author nik
+ */
+public class UiDesignerExternalBuildTest extends ArtifactCompilerTestCase {
+  @Override
+  protected boolean useExternalCompiler() {
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  //IDEA-94779
+  public void testCopyFormsRuntimeToArtifact() throws IOException {
+    VirtualFile file = createFile("src/A.java", "class A{}");
+    VirtualFile srcRoot = file.getParent();
+    Module module = addModule("a", srcRoot);
+    Artifact a = addArtifact(root().module(module));
+    make(a);
+    assertOutput(a, fs().file("A.class"));
+
+    File dir = PathManagerEx.findFileUnderCommunityHome("plugins/ui-designer/testData/build/copyFormsRuntimeToArtifact");
+    FileUtil.copyDir(dir, VfsUtilCore.virtualToIoFile(srcRoot));
+    srcRoot.refresh(false, false);
+    make(a);
+    File outputDir = VfsUtilCore.virtualToIoFile(getOutputDir(a));
+    assertTrue(new File(outputDir, "A.class").exists());
+    assertTrue(new File(outputDir, "B.class").exists());
+    //todo[jeka] fix
+    //assertTrue(new File(outputDir, AbstractLayout.class.getName().replace('.', '/') + ".class").exists());
+  }
+
+}
diff --git a/plugins/ui-designer/ui-designer.iml b/plugins/ui-designer/ui-designer.iml
index 7add16f170c1..8bf285756362 100644
--- a/plugins/ui-designer/ui-designer.iml
+++ b/plugins/ui-designer/ui-designer.iml
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
     <orderEntry type="module" module-name="platform-api" />
     <orderEntry type="module" module-name="spellchecker" />
     <orderEntry type="module" module-name="jps-builders" />
+    <orderEntry type="module" module-name="compiler-tests" scope="TEST" />
   </component>
   <component name="copyright">
     <Base>