Upload file via Ant FTP task in Maven

Question

I\'m trying to upload a file using an Ant task. If I use Ant directly the file is uploaded, but if I call the ant task via Maven (using the maven-antrun-plugin)

Answer 1

ant-commons-net.jar is clearly available to Ant

Yes, but Maven and the maven-antrun-plugin is not using your local Ant install.

Is the Ant classpath defined separately for maven-antrun-plugin, or am I missing something?

The way to use Ant Tasks not included in Ant's default jar is documented in Using tasks not included in Ant's default jar (which should definitely help):

To use Ant tasks not included in the Ant jar, like Ant optional or custom tasks you need to add the dependencies needed for the task to run to the plugin classpath and use the maven.plugin.classpath reference if needed.

  4.0.0
  my-test-app
  my-test-group
  1.0-SNAPSHOT

  
    
       
         org.apache.maven.plugins
         maven-antrun-plugin
         1.6
         
           
             ftp
             deploy
             
               

                 
                   
                     
                   
                 

                 
                 

               
             
             
               run
             
           
         
         
           
             commons-net
             commons-net
             1.4.1
           
           
             ant
             ant-commons-net
             1.6.5
           
           
             ant
             ant-nodeps
             1.6.5