Re: Auto-generate Ant Script from Maven Script?

[Chad Woolley]

Hmm, there is already a plugin to do this, and it's the first plugin in 
the list - cryptically named "Ant".  No wonder I didn't find it.

I'll write it 50 times:  RTFM.  RTFM. RTFM...

Sorry for the unnecessary post.

-- Chad

Chad Woolley wrote:
Hi,

I have an application which uses maven as the main build mechanism. 
However, I also maintain a corresponding Ant script which does a basic 
build of my app.  This is to support users who may want to build my app, 
but not go to the trouble of downloading and installing maven.  Also, I 
have in the past encountered a bug where Maven would not perform a 
certain task, but Ant would (yes, I dutifully reported the bug).

My question is:  Has anyone tried to make a simple plugin which would 
generate a basic Ant build script based off of a maven.xml file?

I know that custom plugins, reports, etc. obviously wouldn't be 
supported.  However, it seems possible to generate a basic Ant build 
script containing the classpath, and targets for clean, java:compile, 
test:compile, jar, etc.  This could even read the properties directly 
from project.properties and project.xml, to avoid hardcoding 
often-changed values in the generated script.

Thanks,
Chad


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