I'm now trying to write a maven 2 plugin to execute a 2rd party's tools command line class. The class is written is java. The tool also has an ant task which just uses the Java task in ant to invoke the command line tool in a forked jvm. Does m2 already provide such functionality and I just haven seen it? Or barring that, can I add a dependency on a set of plugins that will allow my plugn to instantiate the the ant Java task, configure it and then call its execute() method.
I'm trying to avoid having end users create an additional build.xml, instead I'd rather they just configure my plugin in the pom, and I can internally configure the ant Java task and invoke it. Wb
