Goals

Goal Available Description
ant since 1.0 This is the default goal of the plugin and simply attains the ant:generate-build goal.
ant:generate-build since 1.0 Generates an ant build file in the current directory which has targets to
  • Compile the java source code
  • Create a jar from the compiled java code
  • Create a distribution
  • Run unit tests
  • Generate JavaDoc
  • Download all required jar files
  • Download and install Maven

The generated file is located at ${maven.ant.generate.dir}/${maven.ant.generate.script}. If the file already exists the plugin ask to the user if he wants to overwrite it (except if the property maven.ant.generate.force is setted to true).
ant:execute since 1.10 Execute the ant build file located at ${maven.ant.execute.dir}/${maven.ant.execute.script}. Be careful, in this case ant uses the classpath given by maven, thus you can have a different behaviour if you use this task instead of the real ant application.