ANT->Maven task translator(or just use Maven Ant Tasks)

Is there a guide that outlines how to perform each of the following ant tasks using Maven?

http://ant.apache.org/manual开发者_StackOverflow/tasklist.html

Is it considered best practice to use Maven for these tasks or just run them in ANT via ant tasks feature.

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There is no mapping between ant tasks and "Maven tasks", because Maven doesn't have tasks. Its philosophy is completely different.

Ant is imperative: you tell Ant what to do with a sequence of parameterized tasks.

Maven is descriptive: you describe which kind of project you have, respect a set of conventions (or describe how you broke these conventions, and Maven decides which tasks it must do.

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Somewhere there's a table that shows Maven plugins that are analagous to given Ant tasks, but I can't seem to find it. The "Available Plugins" list might help you out.

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There is a list of ant-task-to-maven-plugin at the end of this page -> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin/usage.html

Unfortunately, it only covers a small subset of ant tasks.

I've recently mavenized ant-based project (I really had it with dependency management) and from that experience I had very little need to retain Ant code. The only place I've used antrun plugin was around custom code generation.

I think that it's perfectly fine to delegate some tasks to ant (and sometimes even to scripts) if that's well documented and saves time and maintenance cost.

One other place where I still use antrun is for echoing some environment properties and generic text to a build output, but maybe it's just my ignorance and there is a Maven way for that.