Pushing artifacts to your local repo using Maven's Ant plugin

If you have an Ant module that you need to integrate into an existing Maven project, you'll likely face a few challenges.  Let's just pretend you don't want to mess with Ant too much.

Despite the existence of the maven-antrun-plugin, they don't mesh perfectly together.  One issue is getting the built artifact into your local Maven repository.

Here's one technique: once the Ant build is complete, reach into the target directory and copy the artifact into your repo while taking care to roll the path and version.

	.....
	<parent>
	<groupId>org.ryancutter</groupId>
	<artifactId>myparentproject</artifactId>
	<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
	</parent>
	<artifactId>myartifact</artifactId>
	<name>This is my Ant-built artifact</name>
	<packaging>pom</packaging>
	<build>
	<finalName>myartifact</finalName>
	<plugins>
	<plugin>
	<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
	<executions>
	<execution>
	<phase>compile</phase>
	<configuration>
	<target>
	<ant antfile="build.xml" target="build" />
	<echo message="Moving artifact to local maven repo" />
	<copy file="target/myartifact.jar" tofile="${settings.localRepository}/org/ryancutter/myparentproject/myartifact/${version}/myartifact-${version}.jar" />
	</target>
	</configuration>
	<goals>
	<goal>run</goal>
	</goals>
	</execution>
	</executions>
	</plugin>
	</plugins>
	</build>
	.....

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You might want to adjust this according to your environment.  Perhaps adding more phases and breaking up the operations would be wise.