Hi, I thought Tim's reply didn't need any addition, but it seems that even the documentation is still not clear enough (multiple people did a lot of work on it, though...). Let's try to understand your problem, then improve the doc.
Perhaps 2 examples will help us to understand each other. 1. Maven Ant Tasks have a sample.build.xml [2] to unit-test the components features As stated before, Maven Ant Tasks are not meant to really *build* a project, but only get dependencies. So you won't see in this example anything really building: only getting dependencies in multiple forms, installing an artifact into local repository and deploying to a remote repo (how the artifact installed/deployed is really build is not shown, since once again, it's not the purpose of the tasks) 2. Maven itself can be bootstrapped using Maven Ant Tasks: see build.xml in Maven Core sources [3] This time, this is really a project (Maven Core) built by Ant, getting its multiple dependencies with Maven Ant Tasks: seems to be what you want to do with your project. As you can see in the build file, most content is about building a specific project: there is only a little part that is about getting dependencies, ie the "pull" target (with its depends). Are these examples more clear? Regards, Hervé [2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/ant-tasks/branches/maven-ant-tasks-2.0.x/sample.build.xml?view=markup [3] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/components/branches/maven-2.0.x/build.xml?view=markup Le mercredi 11 février 2009, vikask a écrit : > Hi > > I am also facing same problem. Have anyone found solution? > > Thanks > > regards > Vikas > > Tim Kettler wrote: > > Hi, > > > > halsafar schrieb: > >> I am trying to write an ant script to automate some maven tasks and > >> hopefully > >> decide not to rebuild the entire thing if it detects no changes. Just > >> to give an idea I am working with Jasig CAS Server which has several > >> modules all which are Maven projects. The build time is brutal on this > >> beast and it > >> will always rebuild no matter what it seems. So even if Ant won't help > >> I am > >> still stuck using Ant as I need to auto-deploy the CAS Server to both a > >> Tomcat and Glassfish server. Now everything has been done and Maven is > >> being run from a simple <exec> call in the build.xml for the ant script. > >> I > >> did find some Official Maven Ant Tasks jar I would like to try. However > >> I > >> have been unable to find any examples which actually show this maven ant > >> tasks building a maven project. Any help? > > > > The maven ant tasks bring the dependency management features of maven to > > ant, they don't enable ant to build a maven project. Anyway, here [1] is > > the link to the official homepage containing usage instructions. > > > > -Tim > > > > [1] http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks.html > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
