How to call for a Maven goal within an Ant script?

Question

Is it possible to call or execute a Maven goal within an Ant script?

Say I have an ant target called 'distribute' and inside which I need to call a maven 'compile' goal from another pom.xml.

Answer 1

Since none of the solutions worked for me, this is what I came up with:

Assuming you are running on Windows:

<target name="mvn">     <exec dir="." executable="cmd">         <arg line="/c mvn clean install" />     </exec> </target> 

or on UNIX:

<target name="mvn">     <exec dir="." executable="sh">         <arg line="-c 'mvn clean install'" />     </exec> </target> 

or if you want it to work on both UNIX and Windows:

<condition property="isWindows">     <os family="windows" /> </condition>  <condition property="isUnix">     <os family="unix" /> </condition>  <target name="all" depends="mvn_windows, mvn_unix"/>  <target name="mvn_windows" if="isWindows">     <exec dir="." executable="cmd">         <arg line="/c mvn clean install" />     </exec> </target>  <target name="mvn_unix" if="isUnix">     <exec dir="." executable="sh">         <arg line="-c 'mvn clean install'" />     </exec> </target> 

Answer 2

An example of use of exec task utilizing Maven run from the Windows CLI would be:

<target name="buildProject" description="Builds the individual project">     <exec dir="${source.dir}\${projectName}" executable="cmd">         <arg value="/C"/>         <arg value="${env.MAVEN_HOME}\bin\mvn.bat"/>         <arg line="clean install" /> </exec> </target>