Thanks for the follow-up Steve, I am still hoping that someone has a
solution to what I want to achieve but at the same time I think what you
have suggested is certainly a good simulation for the same…now am still
trying to configure the pom as you suggested (as below) so that I can
activate/invoke the profile at the initialize phase..this is what I have
come up with but it aint working, I think I am missing out something..can
you suggest…am invoking it with mvn –P myprofile initialize..but it doesn't
perform the delete task..though the same works if outside the profile..
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>myprofile</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>execution2</id>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<delete file="lib/test2.txt"/>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
Thanks in advance and Regards,
Farhan.
>Hi Farhan,
>
>I don't know how to do exactly what you want, but you can do something
>close with a profile.
>
>If you put the antrun execution (or any other execution) in a profile
>with no explicit activation spec, and bind it to a really early phase
>(say, the "initialize" phase), then you can invoke it from the command
>line like this:
>
> mvn -P profile-id initialize
>
>Steve
>
>Farhan Sarwar wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> Is there a way I can invoke a plug-in/goal (not linked with any phase)
> configured in a project's pom.xml (within an execution tag) from the
command
> line directly, also the idea is to invoke the goal irrespective of the
maven
> build cycle.
>
>
>
> To be more precise let's say if I have a maven-ant-run: run (plug-in:goal)
> configured (as below) with 2 executions (i.e. execution1 associated with
> validate phase and execution2 not linked to any phase) how can I invoke
the
> configuration as configured in id=execution2 from command line directly
e.g.
> something like mvn antrun:run "execution2" so that it gets executed
> independent of maven phase(s)/build-cycle.
>
>
>
> <build>
>
> <plugins>
>
> <plugin>
>
> <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
>
> <executions>
>
> <execution>
>
> <id>execution1</id>
>
> <phase>validate</phase>
>
> <configuration>
>
> <tasks>
>
> <delete file="lib/test1.txt"/>
>
> </tasks>
>
> </configuration>
>
> <goals>
>
> <goal>run</goal>
>
> </goals>
>
> </execution>
>
> <execution>
>
> <id>execution2</id>
>
> <configuration>
>
> <tasks>
>
> <delete file="lib/test2.txt"/>
>
> </tasks>
>
> </configuration>
>
> <goals>
>
> <goal>run</goal>
>
> </goals>
>
> </execution>
>
> </executions>
>
> </plugin>
>
> </plugins>
>
> </build>
>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
>
> Farhan.
>
