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Friday, April 28, 2006

Running Ant tasks in Maven 2

Larry Williams has written a helpful article for those who have made the jump to Maven 2 from Maven 1 or ANT to automate their Java project builds.

Running Ant tasks in Maven 2:
Running Ant tasks in Maven 2 is completely different from Maven 1. In Maven 1 you could define the Ant tasks in maven.xml and run them as easily as any other Maven task. In Maven 2 this has changed, I would say for the worse. Maven 2 no longer has a maven.xml and requires that everything is a plugin.


Luckily we do not have to write our own plugin as Maven 2 already has an Ant plugin called antrun. The problem is that the documentation is not that helpful. It does not provide any quick examples.


Thankfully, Larry does.
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