Just an idea May be you can fork maven-antrun-plugin, and instead of let plexus bind tasks attribute, instanciate tasks attribute with an xml file embded in you plugin artifact
I was just having a look in AntRunMojo class but i think you have to use AntTargetConverter This is just assumptions ... Please keep me in touch Pedro Viegas-2 wrote: > > Hi there guys, > > I am trying to create a Maven plugin that executes a given ANT task inside > it. > My real case is to call the Hibernate Tools task to generate a bunch of > ORM > classes and Hibernate mappings. > But I need to make some decisions and have to pass some parameters to the > several Hibernate Tools tasks I need to call depending on some conditions > that I need to analize in a Java Mojo. > > Basically I need to: > > 1. Create a Mojo with some parameters and do some processing and file > generation of my own > 2. Call the ANT Hibernate Tools tasks a bunch of times to generate all > my classes/mapings on several packages for several database schemas > 3. Try to keep it as simple as possible to the end programmer user, > simply call a Maven plugin and state some configuration files and > destination package and let the conventioned behavior take charge. > > I have created the first part easily by creating a Java Maven Plugin. > The second part I have configured like a maven-ant-plugin addition to the > POM and got it working, but this has to be copied into each of the > projects > that need this goal and all the configuration I could pragmatically do > have > to be typed repeatedly. > So 1 and 2 are go, 3 is what I can't find any documentation or sample to > help me. > > I have seen the example from: > http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-ant-plugin-development.html > > But this is how to build a maven plugin with ANT. What I need is to build > a > maven plugin in Java that can call an ant task, like antrun plugin does > but > adding a few more java actions and decisions before and after. > > So, how can I use the already running maven java plugin to call the ANT > tasks? > Can I call a plugin inside another plugin? How? > Should I try to extend the maven-antrun-plugin to try to accomplish this? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > Pedro Viegas > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Walking on water and developing software > from a specification are easy if both are > frozen. > - Edward V. Berard > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-create-a-Mojo-that-controls-an-ANT-task-tf4788523s177.html#a13710554 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
