I'm still a maven novice, so maybe someone can clue me in. I'm seeing some
very strange behavior that I just don't understand.
I've been playing with the cactus plugin. I've succeeded in building a war,
cactifying it, and running the cactus tests. Awesome! BUT then I decided I'd
rather let ant build my war for me. (Our project team has standardized on
ant for make scripts, so I'd rather maintain only one version of the build
files). So I override "war:war" in my maven.xml:
<goal name="war:war">
<ant target="war" />
</goal>
I run "maven cactus", and it builds my war file, but then gives an error:
BUILD FAILED
File...... file:/c:/temp/maven/plugins/maven-cactus-plugin-3.1/
<file:/c:/temp/maven/plugins/maven-cactus-plugin-3.1/>
Element... ant:taskdef
Line...... 51
Column.... 75
taskdef class org.apache.cactus.integration.ant.CactusTask cannot be found
Total time: 9 seconds
What does this mean?
Is it generally unsafe to override goals like I'm trying to do? Is there a
better way to delegate behavior to an ant script?
Note that if I remove my "war:war" goal and perform my ant build in a
postGoal for "war:war", the error doesn't occur.
Thanks,
Daniel Rabe
