[udig-devel] maven ant tasks

[Jody Garnett]

I am experimenting with a org.apache.maven-ant-tasks plug-in of my own 
devising; that advertises the traditional maven-ant-task to the eclipse 
ant runner. I am using org.eclipse.ant.core as an example; and so far 
appear successful.

If this works for me I will need to:
1) update the eclipse extras to include this org.apache.maven-ant-tasks 
plugin so everyone can have it
2) update copy.xml to use the

For more information:
- http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks.html

The rough idea is to make copy.xml look something like:

<artifact:remoteRepository id="remote.repository" url="http://lists.refractions.net/m2" />

<artifact:dependencies pathId="dependency.classpath">
  <remoteRepository refid="remote.repository" />
  <dependency groupId="org.geotools" artifactId="gt2-main"
              version="2.5-SNAPSHOT"/>
  ...
</artifact:dependencies>
<copy todir="${project}/lib">
  <fileset refid="dependency.fileset" />
  <mapper classpathref="maven-ant-tasks.classpath" classname="org.apache.maven.artifact.ant.VersionMapper"
          from="${dependency.versions}" to="flatten" />
</copy>

The VersionMapper thing removes the 2.5-SNAPSHOT from the copied jars.

As anyone tried this stuff recently? I hope it is a worthwhile goal ...
Jody