Maven antrun with sequential ant-contrib fails to run

Question

We have a special routine to explode files in a subfolder into extensions, which will be copied and jared into single extension files. For this special approach I wanted to

Answer 1

I too wasted several hours on this one, because antcontrib for task could not be found.

Finally, I found out that for task in not defined in antcontrib.properties, but in antlib.xml!

antcontrib.properties is a pre ant 1.6 way of doing things – the modern way is to use antlib.xml.

So, this is a maven 3.5, ant 1.8, working example:

    maven-antrun-plugin
    
        
            ant-contrib
            ant-contrib
            1.0b3
            
                
                    ant
                    ant
                
            
        
    

    
        deploy_to_distrib_folder
        package
        

            
                

                
                    
                    
                        
                        
                            
                        
                        
                    
                

                
                    
                        
                    
                    
                        
                    
                

            
        
        
            run
        
    

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Hope this helps!