Dealing with IA ant task thru maven is cumbersome. It is must simpler just to invoke the command line.
-Dan On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Ryan Wexler <r...@iridiumsuite.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
