problems with ant ftp task in maven

[Sven Anderson]

Hi,

I'm having problems compiling my maven 2.0.6 proj using ant ftp as an anttask. Maven giving me the following error when I try to compile my project.

Embedded error: Could not create task or type of type: ftp.
Ant could not find the task or a class this task relies upon.

I've read quite a few postings related to this problem but I still haven't managed to get this working.

I'm currently running ant 1.6.5 and have copied the following jars to the ant/lib folder: commons-net-1.4.1.jar, jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar. I'm not having any problems using the ant ftp command building from ANT but in maven it just doesn't work.

Find attached the pom file I'm using

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:artifact="antlib rg.apache.maven.artifact.ant"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>mytester</groupId>
<artifactId>MyMavenWeb</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>MyMavenWeb Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>;
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>ant</groupId>
<artifactId>ant</artifactId>
<version>1.6.5</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-net</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-net</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1</version>
<!--scope>test</scope-->
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<echo message="test ftp functionality"/>

<ftp server="ftp.testserver.com"
remotedir="/myfolder"
depends="yes"
userid="tester"
password="1234">
<fileset dir="${basedir}"/>
</ftp>
</tasks>
</configuration>
<!-- Run the ant target -->
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>

[Karthik Rajendiran]

Hello Friend,
Does other ant specific tags are working in your maven file.
Are you using Jelly
Like this
xmlns:j="jelly:core"
xmlns:u="jelly:util"
xmlns:ant="jelly:ant">

<ant:ftp> like this?

[Sven Anderson]

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I'm using <copy file> which works fine. Haven't tried any other tasks yet.

I'm using
<ftp server="ftp.testserver.com"
remotedir="/myfolder"
depends="yes"
userid="tester"
password="1234">

See my pom file above.
Maybe this is the problem.
Should I be using <ant:ftp> instead of just <ftp>

Also, are there any configurations I need to do to maven such as copy jars to maven/lib in order to get this working?

Thanks
Erik

[Sven Anderson]

Hi,

Just to let everyone know that I fixed the problem.
All I had to do was to add a dependency to ant-commons-net.

<dependency>
 <groupId>ant</groupId>
 <artifactId>ant-commons-net</artifactId>
 <version>1.6.5</version>
</dependency>