Maven Antrun Not Executing Tasks

Question

I'm using Maven AntRun plugin 1.6 and from their example I cannot code the following ant task to be executed.

Example url: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin/examples/classpaths.html

I just get the following message when I execute mvn antrun:run. No ant target defined - SKIPPED

What am I doing wrong?

Here's my POM:

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.6</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>compile</id>
                    <phase>compile</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <target>
                            <property name="compile_classpath" refid="maven.compile.classpath" />
                            <property name="runtime_classpath" refid="maven.runtime.classpath" />
                            <property name="test_classpath" refid="maven.test.classpath" />
                            <property name="plugin_classpath" refid="maven.plugin.classpath" />

                            <echo message="compile classpath: ${compile_classpath}" />
                            <echo message="runtime classpath: ${runtime_classpath}" />
                            <echo message="test classpath:    ${test_classpath}" />
                            <echo message="plugin classpath:  ${plugin_classpath}" />
                        </target>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>run</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

Answer 1

try this

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.7</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>default-cli</id>
                    <configuration>
                        <target>
                            <property name="compile_classpath" refid="maven.compile.classpath" />
                            <property name="runtime_classpath" refid="maven.runtime.classpath" />
                            <property name="test_classpath" refid="maven.test.classpath" />
                            <property name="plugin_classpath" refid="maven.plugin.classpath" />

                            <echo message="compile classpath: ${compile_classpath}" />
                            <echo message="runtime classpath: ${runtime_classpath}" />
                            <echo message="test classpath:    ${test_classpath}" />
                            <echo message="plugin classpath:  ${plugin_classpath}" />
                        </target>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>run</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

note the id

<id>default-cli</id>

and run the command

mvn antrun:run

reason for doing this way: if you don't actually want to "compile", running "mvn compile" to execute something else could be counter productive.