The Ant Plugin generates Ant build files from POMs. The following example describe the basic usage of the plugin.
To generate files, you execute the ant goal of the Ant Plugin, i.e.:
mvn ant:ant
The following files should be created:
yourProjectBaseDir |-- build.xml |-- maven-build.xml `-- maven-build.properties
The build.xml file is a generic Ant build file. It can be updated by the user. Here is the out-of-box build.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<!-- Ant build file (http://ant.apache.org/) for Ant 1.6.2 or above. -->
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<project name="%PROJECT_ARTIFACTID%" default="jar" basedir=".">
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<!-- Import maven-build.xml into the current project -->
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<import file="maven-build.xml"/>
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<!-- Help target -->
<!-- ====================================================================== -->
<target name="help">
<echo message="Please run: $ant -projecthelp"/>
</target>
</project>Note: By default, the build.xml file is not overwritten when calling mvn ant:ant. If you want to overwrite it, you should execute the ant goal with the overwrite parameter, i.e.:
mvn ant:ant -Doverwrite=true
The maven-build.xml file is an Ant build file for your project. It contains several targets to clean, compile, test and package your project and also to create javadoc. To see which Ant targets are available execute this command:
ant -projecthelp
Warning: Do not edit maven-build.xml! It will be overwritten when calling mvn ant:ant.