Using antcontrib task via maven-antrun-plugin

Question

My maven java project uses the maven-antrun-plugin to execute a deploy.xml ant script that deploys my app. The deploy.xml uses the task and this seem

Answer 1

I think it is not a very good idea to add ant to compile classpath in order to run maven plugin.

I use Maven 3.0.4 and it worked by specifying namespace for ant-contrib tags, for example:

  
    
    
      
        Letter @{letter}
      
    
  

My maven-antrun-plugin dependencies:

  
    ant-contrib
    ant-contrib
    1.0b3
    
      
        ant
        ant
      
    
  
  
    org.apache.ant
    ant-nodeps
    1.8.1