How to wrap an Ant build with Maven?

Question

We use maven for our large-ish product. All of our artifacts are deployed to a shared archiva repository using the maven deploy goal. I am now integrating a third party pr

Answer 1

You can use the maven-antrun-plugin to invoke the ant build. Then use the build-helper-maven-plugin to attach the jar produced by ant to the project. The attached artifact will be installed/deployed alongside the pom.
If you specify your project with packaging pom, Maven will not conflict with the ant build.

In the example below, the ant build.xml is assumed to be in src/main/ant, have a compile goal, and output to ant-output.jar.

  maven-antrun-plugin
  
    
      process-resources
      
        
          
        
      
      
        run
      
    
  


  org.codehaus.mojo
  build-helper-maven-plugin
  1.3
  
    
      add-jar
      package
      
        attach-artifact
      
      
        
          
            ${project.build.directory}/ant-output.jar
            jar