To call specific ant target in Maven - maven-3

Question

Please find the below code snippet:-
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>compile</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<configuration>
<target name="test2">
<property name="test_classpath" refid="maven.test.classpath"/>
<property name="plugin_classpath" refid="maven.plugin.classpath"/>
<echo message="test classpath: ${test_classpath}"/>
<echo message="plugin classpath: ${plugin_classpath}"/>
</target>
<target name="test1">
<property name="compile_classpath" refid="maven.compile.classpath"/>
<property name="runtime_classpath" refid="maven.runtime.classpath"/>
<echo message="compile classpath: ${compile_classpath}"/>
<echo message="runtime classpath: ${runtime_classpath}"/>
</target>
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
and when i exceute "mvn compile", output of last target i.e. test1 comes. I have tried mvn compile -Dtarget="test2" and mvn compile -DantTarget="test2" but not able to call target "test2". Please help

Answer 1

The maven ant-run plugin only supports a single target in its configuration, but you can get the same effect by using maven profiles. Add the following to you pom.xml
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>test1</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>compile-test1</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<target name="test1">
<property name="compile_classpath" refid="maven.compile.classpath"/>
<property name="runtime_classpath" refid="maven.runtime.classpath"/>
<echo message="compile classpath: ${compile_classpath}"/>
<echo message="runtime classpath: ${runtime_classpath}"/>
</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>test2</id>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.7</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>compile-test2</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<target name="test2">
<property name="test_classpath" refid="maven.test.classpath"/>
<property name="plugin_classpath" refid="maven.plugin.classpath"/>
<echo message="test classpath: ${test_classpath}"/>
<echo message="plugin classpath: ${plugin_classpath}"/>
</target>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
</profiles>
You can the invoke maven as mvn -Ptest1 or mvn -Ptest2 to activate one of the profiles and execute the chosen ant target.