Suppose you had created and maintained your project from maven for long time, but now you have instructions to move it to ant build environment. Well, it does not look easy, but it really is very much.
All you need to use if maven ant plugin which is specifically only for this purpose.
$ mvn ant:ant
Lets see a detailed example to generate ant build file from maven pom file using maven ant plugin.
1. Create sample maven project
$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=com.howtodoinjava -DartifactId=antBuildScriptDemo -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-quickstart -DinteractiveMode=false
2. Generate ant script from pom.xml
$ cd antBuildScriptDemo $ mvn ant:ant
3. Demo to generate build.xml from pom.xml
Above command will generate 3 files in project root folder.
build.xmlmaven-build.properiesmaven-build.xml
To run the above generated ant file, install ant in your system and execute the build.xml file like this:
ant build.xml
Happy Learning !!
Reference: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-ant-plugin/index.html
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bintu
hi
im using ‘tomcat7-maven-plugin ‘ to deploy my web project.but I have to redeploy the whole project when I even change a static resource(html /css /js).Is there way to do that(only copy static resources) to tomcat using a maven plugin?
Suresh
Hi Lokesh,
Thanks for post. Can i see post regarding ANT tutorial so it ll helpful.
vinay
thanks a lot you save my life
Lokesh Gupta
Welcome