Can you run an ant build script as part of a Hudson deployment?

Question

We want to be able to deploy our project using Hudson, but the build file for the project generates some files and downloads packages from other locations.

Is it possible to make Hudson do these tasks as part of a deployment?

Answer 1

You can use the maven ant plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin/) to run ant script in hudson without configuring hudson. This is good for running the ant script manuelly as well as using hudson.

Answer 2

And here is the link to the corresponding page in the hudson wiki: Building A Software Project

Answer 3

Hudson (Jenkins) has support for Ant, so yes, you can run any deployment tasks specified in your Ant scripts.