Applying Ant in Maven (Re: Latest build (ala Maven))

[Joe Germuska <Jo...@Germuska.com>]

At 3:11 PM -0800 2/28/05, Don Brown wrote:
>Hey, mind sharing some tips for converting old Ant tasks to Maven?


In general, you can simply copy them into "maven.xml", wrapped in a 
<goal>,<preGoal>, or <postGoal> tag.  The only change is that you 
must qualify each element with a namespace: as James set it up, the 
namespace would be "ant", so
<echo>Hello World</echo>
becomes
<ant:echo>Hello World</ant:echo>

If its a task to be attained directly, wrap it in a "goal" tag with a 
name attribute: for an example, see build/maven.xml: <goal 
name="build-all">

If it is a task which is to be attained before or after some other 
goal, use <preGoal> or <postGoal> accordingly, with a "name" 
attribute whose name is the goal relative to which you want your 
block executed.

Obviously, for this you can use any goal which you specify as an 
argument to maven ("clean", "jar", etc), but sometimes you want to 
get in the middle of an operation.  In that case, sometimes a 
plugin's homepage will list intermediate goals, or sometimes you have 
to poke through the jelly script which drives the plugin.

Hope that helps.

Joe

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