How to execute multiple ant targets in maven

Yes, yes, this is an XY problem. (I wanted to present it better without losing information)

In my project, when I tried to do ANT tasks in maven, it gives me the same error as in this example. I took this example from here .

I tried to accomplish multiple ANT goals using maven-antrun-plugin

as shown below. But it always only serves the lowest goal (when I don't mention it depends on attibute). When I use it, it gives the following exception:

Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-antrun-plugin:1.7:run (default) on project jibx-mvn-demo: An Ant BuildException has occured: Target "compile" does not exist in the project "maven-antrun-". It is used from target "myDAO". -> [Help 1]

      

pom.xml

    <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.7</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>install</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <target name="clean">
                            <echo>Clean up my working directory to be nice and sparkly</echo>
                        </target>
                        <target name="initDAO">
                            <echo>Initialize stuff for my DAO build</echo>
                            <echo>Maybe setup some properties?</echo>
                        </target>
                        <target name="makedir" depends="initDAO">
                            <echo>I need my directories for building.</echo>
                            <echo>But first, I need to setup stuff"</echo>
                        </target>
                        <target name="compile" depends="makedir">
                            <echo>I need to compile my dao source"</echo>
                            <echo>But first, I need to make the necessary directories</echo>
                        </target>
                        <target name="myDAO" depends="compile">
                            <echo>Here where I package up my DAO</echo>
                            <echo>But I have to compile stuff before I can package it</echo>
                        </target>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>run</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

      

What is the reason for this? How do I perform multiple ANT tasks in maven?

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We can do this using a separate build.xml file



<target name="anytarget">
     <ant antfile="build.xml"/>
</target>

      

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The answer doesn't work for me in the current version of the Maven AntRun plugin (1.8) and I miss the build.xml file.

So in the pom.xml:

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.8</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>download-files</id>
            <phase>prepare-package</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <target>
                    <ant antfile="build.xml">
                        <target name="go"/>
                    </ant>
                </target>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

      

And the build.xml file:



<project name="Selenium" basedir=".">

    <target name="check-files">
        <available file="src/test/resources/firefox/firefox" property="firefox.exists"/>
    </target>

    <target name="download-firefox" depends="check-files" unless="firefox.exists">
        <!-- download Firefox for selenium -->
        <get src="https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/57.0/linux-x86_64/pt-BR/firefox-57.0.tar.bz2"
             dest="src/test/resources"
             verbose="false"
             usetimestamp="true"/>
        <bunzip2 src="src/test/resources/firefox-57.0.tar.bz2"
                 dest="src/test/resources"/>
        <untar src="src/test/resources/firefox-57.0.tar"
               dest="src/test/resources"/>
        <chmod file="src/test/resources/firefox/firefox/" perm="700"/>
    </target>

    <target name="go" depends="check-files, download-firefox"/>

</project>

      

The above example does the following tasks:

  1. Check if firefox exists in src/test/resources

    ;
  2. If doesn't exist:
    1. Download Firefox;
    2. bunzip2

      Firefox BZIP2 file;
    3. untar

      tar file firefox;
    4. Configure the folder permissions using the command chmod

      .

Works great!

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