Reid - I would just define your own goal in the maven.xml file and call that. You can make it then call the checkstyle goal by using <attainGoal> or whatever else you want it to do. -marc
-----Original Message----- From: Reid Pinchback [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 7/20/2005 6:01 PM To: users@maven.apache.org Cc: Subject: Alternate build step Yes, I'm a newbie. I trolled through faqs and did some web searches and didn't see what I'm looking for. If you know a specific place that addresses the question I'm about to ask, please send me pointer to it. Situation: I have an existing Ant-based build environment involving multiple projects and multiple developers. For a host of obvious reasons, sweeping changes don't go through overnight. I'm in the process of using Maven for mavenish things, but the bulk of day-to-day developer activity will, for some time, be Ant. Changing that isn't on the table without consequences involving hot tar and a bunch of plucked chickens. I'd like Maven to be able to do things like run Checkstyle when I build the site. What I don't want is for it to perform its default Java build steps. I don't want Maven to know anything about how the various software products are really built. I don't mind it knowing where the Java source is, but I don't want it to do anything with it. What I really want is for it to insert my Ant build as a *replacement* for what it normally does... not as some pre-goal to doing its thing. I don't want it doing its thing. It's thing isn't going to do me any good. In the future maybe we'll go all Maven, but what I've described is what I need to achieve for the present. So in summary the idea is: maven site causes my ant target to be invoked (I see in the docs how to invoke an ant task), and then runs checkstyle, and then builds the site, but never tries to compile or deploy anything. How do I do that? Thanks in advance, Reid __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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