Maven-antrun No ant target defined - SKIPPED - maven

i am trying to copy a file in my maven multi-module project via antrun plugin. the file is in root of parent project:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<executions>
<execution>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<id>copy</id>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<target name="copy and rename file">
<copy file="${basedir}/portal-ext.properties" tofile="${liferay.auto.deploy.dir}/../portal-ext.properties" />
</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
i run this via mvn antrun:run the problem is i get "No ant target defined - SKIPPED" on parent and on every module. i need it to run only on parent and thought <inherited>false</inherited> would help but i doesn't. But why "No ant target defined"?

<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>ant-execute</id>
<configuration>
<target>
<echo message="plugin classpath: " />
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
command : mvn antrun:run#ant-execute

antrun:run will only consider the plugin's configuration, not that for a specific execution, so the execution you specify is ignored. As Run a single Maven plugin execution? states, you can give your execution an id of default-cli to have it picked up.
However, the execution you configure should already be taking effect during the regular build lifecycle.

just run it like this: mvn antrun:run#copy

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What I am trying to do is to execute an external java code generator via exec-maven-plugin or maven-antrun-plugin:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<configuration>
<executable>java</executable>
<arguments>
<argument>-jar ${de.powerstat.fb:generator:1.0-SNAPSHOT}</argument>
<argument>de.powerstat.fb.generator.CodeGenerator</argument>
<argument>${fb.hostname}</argument>
<argument>${fb.port}</argument>
<argument>${fb.username}</argument>
<argument>${fb.password}</argument>
<argument>${project.build.directory}</argument>
</arguments>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>exec</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
So the point here is how to solve the jars path for ${de.powerstat.fb:generator:1.0-SNAPSHOT} without having it as a dependency of the whole project? Also using the exec:java goal is not a solution, because this one seems to have different problems, but thats another question.
Using the antrun plugin I come to the same problem:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<configuration>
<target>
<java fork="true" failonerror="true" module="de.powerstat.fb.generator" modulepath="${de.powerstat.fb:generator:1.0-SNAPSHOT}">
<arg value="${fb.hostname} ${fb.port} ${fb.username} ${fb.password} ${project.build.directory}"/>
</java>
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
So question is again how to solve the modulepath="${de.powerstat.fb:generator:1.0-SNAPSHOT}"?
Solutions that use the maven dependency plugin with the goal dependency:properties will not work in this scenario.
I suggest to use dependency:copy to copy the JAR to some place in /target. Then you can add that path to the antrun or exec plugin.

Execute script as part of mvn package

My pom.xml contains
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<warName>${project.artifactId}</warName>
<outputDirectory>${wlp.install.dir}/usr/servers/liberty/apps</outputDirectory>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
When I run mvn package I can see this step running:
[INFO] --- maven-war-plugin:2.3:war (default-war) # frontEnd ---
That's great. However, I also want to run a shell script before the war file is created. I tried adding
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<exec dir="${basedir}"
executable="${basedir}/src/main/webapp/concat"/>
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before the maven-war plugin, but it does not run. I don't even see antrun in the output of mvn. Adding the <tasks> element to the <configuration> for maven-war-plugin does nothing either.
What can I do to have maven simply run a script as part of mvn package?
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<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase> <!-- a lifecycle phase --> </phase>
<configuration>
<target>
<!--
Place any Ant task here. You can add anything
you can add between <target> and </target> in a
build.xml.
-->
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
See The maven-antrun-plugin Usage Page for more details and The Maven Introduction to the Build Lifecycle for further reference.

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<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy-ui</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<configuration>
<target>
<property name="buildDir" value="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}" />
<ant antfile="build.xml" target="static-assets" />
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
The above fails because the files have not yet been copied into target directory. If I set the phase to "package" the ant task runs fine and all the files are created/amended, but it's no help as the .war has already been built before the ant target is run.
Basically, I need to run my ant target near the end of the prepare-package phase.
Having looked though the Lifecycle Reference I can't workout how to expose the more granular Goals to the antrun plugin.
Any ideas?
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 <plugins/> list after the maven-antrun-plugin.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>deploy-ui</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<configuration>
<target>
<property name="buildDir" value="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}" />
<ant antfile="build.xml" target="static-assets" />
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<!-- First step is to disable the default-war build step. -->
<id>default-war</id>
<phase>none</phase>
</execution>
<execution>
<!-- Second step is to create an exploded war. Done in prepare-package -->
<id>war-exploded</id>
<phase>prepare-package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>exploded</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
<execution>
<!-- Last step is to make sure that the war is built in the package phase -->
<id>custom-war</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>war</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
Added some more executions so that the default-war is first disabled, then the war is exploded and lastly the war is packaged.
As you observed this is a place where the lifecycle doesn't provide the granularity needed. I answered a similar question for someone earlier. It's not an exact answer to your question but the technique may apply.

How to call maven-antrun-plugin target without attach execution to a maven phase ?

I use maven-antrun-plugin for init config files for my project. But i need to init config files just once, when i first start to init my dev environment, not each time i launch jetty:run.
If I attach phase to process-resouces for example, each time I launch jetty, my config files are reseted.
So i configured antrun like this :
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<target name="init_config_files">
<!-- init files -->
</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
If I launch mvn antrun:run, it just return me this error : "[INFO] No ant target defined - SKIPPED". And it is the same thing, if I specify target : "mvn antrun:run -Dtarget=init_config_files".
Try this:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>default-cli</id>
<configuration>
<target>
<property name="compile_classpath" refid="maven.compile.classpath" />
<echo message="compile classpath: ${compile_classpath}" />
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
and run this:
mvn antrun:run
Best solution I have found so far:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>go-live</id>
<configuration>
<target>
<!-- go live! -->
<exec executable="${basedir}/deploy2server.sh" failonerror="true" dir="${basedir}">
<arg value="deploy" />
<arg value="${deploy.to.server}" />
<arg value="${jetty.port.live}" />
</exec>
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
and run this:
mvn antrun:run#go-live
This solution avoids the target being run by accident, ie. it does not run just by typing "mvn antrun:run" and it also does not run during regular maven runs. I'm using this for qa auto-deployment in my jenkins instance after all modules incl integration done against the final distribution package have been successfully executed.
I just ran into the same problem and finally figured it out: If you want to run the ant tasks only once, you can set the plugin up like this:
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<target name="init_config_files">
<!-- init files -->
</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
and use mvn antrun:run to execute it. That way, the ant stuff is not bound to any phase.
If you need to run some part of build on special conditions (e.g. once), you can put those parts into a Maven profile and then invoke Maven specifying profile name, e.g. mvn -p init_config_files package

How to bind ant to a maven-plugin custom goal

The way to integrate maven with ant is to simply use the maven-antrun-plugin like
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.6</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>package</id>
<phase>package</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<ant antfile="build.xml" target="package" />
</tasks>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
in your project's pom.xml file
However I want to be able to have that associated build.xml script along with the execution configuration as part of a maven plugin that defines a custom packaging and a lifecycle.
Is there a way to do that?
I wrote an experiment that did this a little while ago. Have a look at the maven-plugin-in-ant branch of jslint4java.

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