Before integrating maven into ant, I'd consider which flow suits you best. Starting maven is slower than using ant inside maven, so you may be better off again putting your existing ant code into maven.xml, or a plugin that you can share amongst projects.
This is how I started out (still have it, although maven does most everything on its own now). - Brett > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Colebourne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2003 7:07 AM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: Re: Combining ant and maven (was (Fwd) Re: Corporate > constructive criticism) > > > Yes, on reflection I realised that a combination of tools > could do the job. > > I can successfully do > - java:compile > - jar:install > - site:deploy > so I will get benefits from maven. It seems to be the > distribution and release steps where I hit the really hard problems. > > So, question to maven guys - is there a maven ant task? > > Stephen >
