Any reason why you're trying to build your own solution instead of going the Maven way by setting up a corporate repository populated with these artifacts? Not only would it be the right solution, my guess is that it would be so much easier than going against Maven.
/Anders On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 07:06, Vijay Venkataraman < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Currently i am trying to get maven project setup which creates a jar > artifact. I have setup the project structure. > Unfortunately i we don't have the libraries in central repository as per > maven layout and jars don't have version numbers. > They are jars like product1.jar, product2.jar. These jars are the project > dependencies. > I was thinking of running ant task which will move the jars to necessary > location and rename the jars during validate phase. After which i expect > the > compile to execute. > > But i see that dependency resolution happens first before any tasks can be > executed. Is it that i should write a separate ant script to do this before > running maven. > I am using maven 2.1.0. > > Is there a better way to accomplish this? > > Thanks, > Vijay >
