Question

I can do this

run ANT build.xml from Maven using ant run plugin.

My pom.xml

<target>
  <property name="src.dir" location="my_project_folder_location"/>
  <subant>
     <fileset dir="${src.dir}" includes="**/build.xml"/>
  </subant>
</target>

This runs ANT with build.xml

 <project name="*ant_test" basedir=".">
    <copy overwrite="true" force="true" verbose="true" todir="to_folder">
        <fileset dir="from_folder" />
    </copy>
 </project>

It does the task of copying from 1 folder to another.

What I need to do is:

Run this new build.xml with <target>.

 <project name="*ant_test" basedir=".">
   <target name="onlyCopy">
    <copy overwrite="true" force="true" verbose="true" todir="to_folder">
        <fileset dir="from_folder" />
    </copy>
  </target>
 </project>

What changes should I make in the pom.xml

EDIT

The difference between this question and is:

In the ANT build.xml I have mentioned <targer>. Target allows independent tasks to be run by selecting the target name from ANT builtfire.

Answer 1

Basically what you are looking for is to Run ANT with all the targets without individually running each target.

You can simply add a target in subant of your pom.xml

<subant target="onlyCopy"> will do the trick.