having different configurated antrun plugins for multiple projects

[Erik Romson <er...@zenior.no>]

I have been sitting and banging my head against the screen for a  while 
now and my face is a mess, I'm in a grumpy mood. Please help me!!

I have a fairly simple setup

parent
        - child1
        - child2
        - child3
    etc

I have ported it from maven1 where some projects has xdoclet generation 
and some has jasper compilation (or both). Everything relies on ant I 
thought I should be able to avoid to write plugins.

What I want to do is to declare the antrun plugin (and tasks) once and 
therefore put it in the parent.pom. Then I would like to say for which 
projects I want to use the tasks in the plugin
.
I have tried to do following:

- declare in pluginmanagement: this pulls in the whole plugin with both 
tasks. This is correct according to docs but it would be nice to define 
the inherit on execution/id NOT on the actual plugin name. That is 
because I can only define the plugin once.

- declare under plugins and setting inherited all over the place, both 
in the parent and child pom. The element inherited do not seem to have 
any functionality whatsoever. A search of " inherited " on the source 
files yields hits on ModelReportPlugin. Is it used at all? If so HOW. 
The documentation is very scarce on this.

- tried to override the definition in the childplugin, but the result is 
merged.

- declare as profile: This does not work except if I write 
-Dxdoc_profile=y (or whatever I use to activate it). I wanted to add the 
activation property it to the property-section in the child pom but it 
is ignored This seems to be because the profile in the parent pom eiter 
is evaluated before the child pom or because the system property needs 
to be set, not a pom property.

I understand that there is a xdoclet plugin but I cant get it to work, I 
could write a jasperplugin as well but it would be nice to do this when 
you port a project, due to the fact that the original goals has a lot of 
ant in them.

I have some other ant tasks I need to port as well but I haven't even 
gotten there yet.

Now I have to copy paste the plugin definition to all projects and that 
is really, bad.

Regards
Erik

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