Interesting. What was the advantage you found to a custom plugin versus just executing through Antrun?
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
