How do you force maven to execute antrun:run task after all the package tasks in a POM with child modules?

Question

I have a parent POM with a bunch of child modules. I want to run an antrun:run task after all the children have executed a package task (I'm using Ant to package my app since i gave up figuring out how to get assembly to work correctly).

I need to have the antrun task execute after all the children - but I can't associate it with package phase since parent gets "packaged" before children, and i need ant to run afterwards.

Is there a way to do it in one command?

Easy workaround, of course, is to run 2 maven commands:

mvn package; mvn antrun:run

But i want to do it in one, if possible

mvn package antrun:run

produces wrong behaviour - it runs antrun:run before child projects' package phase.

Ideally, i'd be able to just type

mvn package

And have that run package phase on all children, and then run antrun:run on parent.

Answer 1

I need to have the antrun task execute after all the children - but I can't associate it with package phase since parent gets "packaged" before children, and i need ant to run afterwards.

Create another module that depends on all children (so that it will be the last project during a reactor build) and bind your antrun stuff on package in this module. Then just run mvn package from the root project.

Answer 2

Put

<inherited>false</inherited> 

in your plugin definition:

<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>    
           <inherited>false</inherited>
              <executions>
                 <execution>
                   <phase>compile</phase>
                   <configuration>

                     <tasks>
                       <ant antfile="buildall.xml">

                       </ant>
                    </tasks>
                 </configuration>
                 <goals>
                    <goal>run</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
           </executions>
       </plugin>