Hey, mind sharing some tips for converting old Ant tasks to Maven?
In general, you can simply copy them into "maven.xml", wrapped in a <goal>,<preGoal>, or <postGoal> tag. The only change is that you must qualify each element with a namespace: as James set it up, the namespace would be "ant", so
<echo>Hello World</echo>
becomes
<ant:echo>Hello World</ant:echo>
If its a task to be attained directly, wrap it in a "goal" tag with a name attribute: for an example, see build/maven.xml: <goal name="build-all">
If it is a task which is to be attained before or after some other goal, use <preGoal> or <postGoal> accordingly, with a "name" attribute whose name is the goal relative to which you want your block executed.
Obviously, for this you can use any goal which you specify as an argument to maven ("clean", "jar", etc), but sometimes you want to get in the middle of an operation. In that case, sometimes a plugin's homepage will list intermediate goals, or sometimes you have to poke through the jelly script which drives the plugin.
Hope that helps.
Joe
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