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javamonkey79
javamonkey79

Reputation: 17755

maven antrun plugin

I have the following in my pom:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-ant-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3</version>
    <configuration>
       <target>
          <echo
            message="hello ant, from Maven!" />
          <echo>Maybe this will work?</echo>
       </target>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Yet, when I run 'mvn antrun:run' I get this:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'antrun'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building myProject
[INFO]    task-segment: [antrun:run]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [antrun:run {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] Executing tasks
[INFO] Executed tasks
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Fri Sep 24 13:33:14 PDT 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 16M/28M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

How come the echo's don't show up?

TIA

Upvotes: 19

Views: 17545

Answers (2)

Ben Hutchison
Ben Hutchison

Reputation: 5103

Make sure maven-antrun-plugin is using a recent enough version.

An unrelated BOM in my project was locking it to 1.3, and <echo> was being ignored. After removing the BOM and specifying 1.7 for antrun, the echoes worked.

Upvotes: 3

Pascal Thivent
Pascal Thivent

Reputation: 570285

Because you are supposed to use the Maven AntRun Plugin if you want to execute Ant tasks, not the Maven Ant Plugin (which is used to generate build files for Ant 1.6.2 or above from the POM). Modify your plugin configuration as below:

  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.5</version>
    <configuration>
      <target>
        <echo message="hello ant, from Maven!"/>
        <echo>Maybe this will work?</echo>
      </target>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

And invoking antrun:run will work:

$ mvn antrun:run 
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]                                                                         
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Q3790798 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-antrun-plugin:1.5:run (default-cli) @ Q3790798 ---
[INFO] Executing tasks

main:
     [echo] hello ant, from Maven!
     [echo] Maybe this will work?
[INFO] Executed tasks
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
...

Upvotes: 30

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