On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Wayne Fay <[email protected]> wrote:
> A friend is using Ant + InstallAnywhere and I told him that I would > look into options for integrating it with his Maven builds. I am > familiar with izPack and other options but his company has an > investment in IA and going to another tool is not desired. > > It looks like there is an Ant task provided by IA and right now I'm > planning to leverage that, but I'd also like to hear from anyone else > who is using IA with Maven to hear your thoughts and comments. > > Hi Wayne. I've just started porting an existing ant script to Maven that was used to perform an IA build. The existing Ant script moved a bunch of files around to be in a certain directory for the IA project, and then kicked off the IA build. I moved the file-moving logic into Maven using the Assembly plugin, and then kicked off the IA build using the antrun plugin. This works pretty well, as all the antrun plugin needs to do is run the IA build. Maven does the remaining logic which was in the old Ant script. I did the same thing when I started, though. I looked for an IA plugin for Maven, and probably would have used it first had one been available (I couldn't find one). However, using antrun has been doing the job just fine. Hope this helps, Ed
