InstallAnywhere plugin -- or just use their Ant task?

2012-03-07 Thread Wayne Fay
A friend is using Ant + InstallAnywhere and I told him that I would look into options for integrating it with his Maven builds. I am familiar with izPack and other options but his company has an investment in IA and going to another tool is not desired. It looks like there is an Ant task provided

Re: InstallAnywhere plugin -- or just use their Ant task?

2012-03-07 Thread Ed Hillmann
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com wrote: A friend is using Ant + InstallAnywhere and I told him that I would look into options for integrating it with his Maven builds. I am familiar with izPack and other options but his company has an investment in IA and going to

Re: InstallAnywhere plugin -- or just use their Ant task?

2012-03-07 Thread Dan Tran
I have experience on both IA ant and build executable. Ended up to write a maven plugin ( ia-maven-plugin) and just invoke the build/build.exe command line -D On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Ed Hillmann ed.hillm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Wayne Fay wayne...@gmail.com

Re: InstallAnywhere plugin -- or just use their Ant task?

2012-03-07 Thread Dan Tran
here is some code public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException, MojoFailureException { Commandline cl = new Commandline(); cl.setExecutable( new File( this.iaLocation, build ).getAbsolutePath() ); cl.createArg().setFile( this.iaProjectFile );

Re: InstallAnywhere plugin -- or just use their Ant task?

2012-03-07 Thread Ryan Wexler
Interesting. What was the advantage you found to a custom plugin versus just executing through Antrun? On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Dan Tran dant...@gmail.com wrote: I have experience on both IA ant and build executable. Ended up to write a maven plugin ( ia-maven-plugin) and just invoke

Re: InstallAnywhere plugin -- or just use their Ant task?

2012-03-07 Thread Dan Tran
Dealing with IA ant task thru maven is cumbersome. It is must simpler just to invoke the command line. -Dan On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Ryan Wexler r...@iridiumsuite.com wrote: Interesting. What was the advantage you found to a custom plugin versus just executing through Antrun? On

Re: InstallAnywhere plugin -- or just use their Ant task?

2012-03-07 Thread Dan Tran
Please also note that before invoking IA, we still need to do lots of prep works to create a staging area to place all required files to be consumed by IA. the prep works are done by various maven plugin such as resource, dependency, antrun, etc -D On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dan Tran