maven, ant plugin, antrun:run

Question

When executing 'mvn antrun:run' my tasks are not run.. I have an echo task, but no output is shown.. When running the phases that the tasks are bound to, they do get executed..

How do I specifically execute the tasks from the commandline?

Answer 1

Assuming something like this is added to your pom.xml

<build>
   <plugins>
       <plugin>
          <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
          <executions>
            <execution>
              <phase>package</phase><!--Change this to control when it runs -->
              <configuration>
                <tasks>
      <echo  message="Hello, maven"/>
                </tasks>
              </configuration>
              <goals>
                <goal>run</goal><!-- this is to call antrun:run -->
              </goals>
            </execution>
          </executions>
        </plugin>
     </plugins>
  </build>

Executing mvn package will result in the following on your console

[INFO] [antrun:run {execution: default}]
[INFO] Executing tasks
     [echo] Hello, maven
[INFO] Executed tasks

You can change the phase to have your ant script run at whatever point you need.