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Writing an Ant Maven Plugin
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Olivier Lamy
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2012-05-14
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Writing an Ant Maven Plugin
You can write Maven plugins based on Ant scripts.
* Pom configuration
+------------+
...
org.apache.maven
maven-script-ant
2.2.1
...
org.apache.maven.plugins
maven-plugin-plugin
${project.version}
org.apache.maven.plugin-tools
maven-plugin-tools-ant
${project.version}
...
+------------+
* Files structure
The Ant plugin consists in two files. If you want to create a <<>> plugin, you must have:
* <<>>: contains Mojo(s) descriptor informations,
* <<>>: contains the Ant xml to execute.
** Ant Mojos descriptor
%{snippet|id=ant-mojo|url=http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugin-tools/trunk/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/ant-basic/src/main/scripts/touch.mojos.xml}
** Ant script
%{snippet|id=ant-build|url=http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/plugin-tools/trunk/maven-plugin-plugin/src/it/ant-basic/src/main/scripts/touch.build.xml}