> I was never expecting that maven is using it's own ANT ! Its not "using its own Ant." It simply does not use the Ant that you previously installed but rather uses the Ant jars directly from its cache.
> Now with maven it just did not work and the reason why is: "Maven uses it's > own ANT lib files !!!" > > I was not expecting that maven reinvents the wheel. It doesn't. This is a failure of your understanding of how Maven works. > So then - be it as it is --- how can we enforce maven to use a particular > installed ANT version and not use the maven-internal ANT ? You simply need to "release" your own version of Ant using a specific version eg 1.8-JOSEPH and then specifically depend on that version in your Maven pom. You probably want to lock down the version with <version>[1.8-JOSEPH]</version> to prevent Maven from helpfully using a different version. You could use a "real" version like 1.8.2 but realize that **will** cause problems in the future if/when Ant releases their own version 1.8.2 jars. Deploy your Ant version to your Repo Manager (assuming you are using Nexus et al) and you should be all set. Wayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org