Run an ant task in maven build phase before war is packaged?

Question

When deploying a webapp I need to update some variables in UI resources, unzip some assets and concat some files, currently this is achieved via an ant task. I\'m trying to

Answer 1

Since I did not get any answer on my comment I guess that you want to stay using maven-antrun-plugin.

From what I've learned and experienced, if two plugins are to be executed on the same phase, then they will be executed in the order they are declared in pom.xml.

For this to work you will have to add the maven-war-plugin in the list after the maven-antrun-plugin.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-antrun-plugin
    1.6
    
        
            deploy-ui
            package
            false
            
                
                    
                    
                
            
            
                run
            
        
    


    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-war-plugin
    2.3
    
        
            
            default-war
            none
        
        
            
            war-exploded
            prepare-package
            
                exploded
            
        
        
            
            custom-war
            package
            
                war
            
        
    

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Added some more executions so that the default-war is first disabled, then the war is exploded and lastly the war is packaged.