I have experience on both IA ant and build executable. Ended up to write a maven plugin ( ia-maven-plugin) and just invoke the build/build.exe command line
-D On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Ed Hillmann <ed.hillm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Wayne Fay <wayne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> A friend is using Ant + InstallAnywhere and I told him that I would >> look into options for integrating it with his Maven builds. I am >> familiar with izPack and other options but his company has an >> investment in IA and going to another tool is not desired. >> >> It looks like there is an Ant task provided by IA and right now I'm >> planning to leverage that, but I'd also like to hear from anyone else >> who is using IA with Maven to hear your thoughts and comments. >> >> > Hi Wayne. I've just started porting an existing ant script to Maven that > was used to perform an IA build. The existing Ant script moved a bunch of > files around to be in a certain directory for the IA project, and then > kicked off the IA build. > > I moved the file-moving logic into Maven using the Assembly plugin, and > then kicked off the IA build using the antrun plugin. This works pretty > well, as all the antrun plugin needs to do is run the IA build. Maven does > the remaining logic which was in the old Ant script. > > I did the same thing when I started, though. I looked for an IA plugin for > Maven, and probably would have used it first had one been available (I > couldn't find one). However, using antrun has been doing the job just fine. > > Hope this helps, > Ed --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
