Maven2 life cycle help

Question

I’ve built a custom Maven2 plug-in using Ant. I would like to call another maven plug-in in particular the Cargo Maven2 plug-in immediately after the custom Ant plug-in successfully completes. However, I do not want to attach the Cargo plug-in to another goal or phase. Is there a way to have them run consecutively without having to write a batch script? Is there away to have the Custom Ant plug-in call out to the Cargo plug-in?

Answer 1

See this discussion: Re: calling plugin in another plugin? According to the Maven developers, this is not the way plugins are supposed to work.

However, there is this interesting comment:

Plugins/Mojos should be thin wrappers around a library. You'd want to use the library directly.

Cargo is not only a Maven plugin, it also has a Java API and an Ant task. So you could probably:

• call the Cargo Ant task from your Ant mojo (I think you'll just need the Cargo JARs in your plugin's classpath);

• rewrite your Ant mojo in Java, and invoke the Cargo API (you'd want to look at the sources of the Cargo plugin).