> I have tried adding the ant jars to the maven project itself, but that > yielded no results may be because the maven project does not compile any > java files itself, it delegates the responsibility to Ant via AntRun.
This is kind of a ridiculous way to build a project with Maven IMO. > This is jruby code that I downloaded as a zip and it compiles fine as a > stand alone. The actual maven project itself doesn't compile any java > classes, so, no ant dependencies for the maven project. I am trying to unzip You should ask the JRuby folks for help with this since its their code that you're working with. But don't be surprised when they say that they simply do not support what you are trying to do since they officially use Ant for builds: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/DownloadAndBuildJRuby > missing when the ant build is triggered. So I tried adding the jars to > plugin hoping that maven will serve these via antrun to ant build. I know > there is a fallacy in understanding here but I am unable to see it. Do the practical thing and just build it with Ant directly. Then if you want to push the resulting artifacts into a Maven repo etc, use the Maven Ant Tasks to do so directly from Ant. Why are doing things the hard way? Wayne
