Converting maven pom to ivy

Without making any comments about metadata formats or simplicity vs complexity of dependency defintions… Here is how you can convert a maven pom into an ivy.xml if required. Just create a very basic ant file and execute it:

<project name="convertPomToIvy" basedir="." default="all"
  xmlns:ivy="antlib:fr.jayasoft.ivy.ant"
  xmlns:ac="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib">

    <path id="antlib.classpath">
        <fileset dir="/path/to/ivy/libs" includes="*.jar"/>
    </path>

    <taskdef uri="antlib:fr.jayasoft.ivy.ant"
        resource="fr/jayasoft/ivy/ant/antlib.xml"
        classpathref="antlib.classpath"
        loaderref="antlib.classpath.loader"/>

    <target name="convert">
        <ivy:convertpom pomFile="pom.xml" ivyFile="ivy.xml" />
    </target>

</project>

One would hope there was an ordinary command line for this.

Thanks to Nicolas for pointing me to this!

30. October 2008 | ivy, maven

Shadarap

Thanks for the post :)
stuartblair

Thankyou soooooo much! It worked a treat.
kalyan

Thanks @ Matt & tcurdt. I think it will run in the ivy versions >= 2.0
Matt

Here's the way to do it : http://ant.apache.org/ivy/hist...
tcurdt

@kalyan: I don't know of any. And frankly speaking I doubt that's easily doable.
kalyan

Hi,
Is there any automated converter which coverts IVY.xml to Maven Pom
Jan

Ok, now it works. Nested elements and AntLibs are supported. You could try the sandbox/javafront and start

ant ^
-lib build\classes -lib _ivy ^
-main org.apache.ant.javafront.TaskExec ^
-xmlns:ivy=antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant ^
ivy:convertpom pomFile pom.xml ivyFile ivy.xml
Jan

Nice idea - we have developed something to start tasks from the command line. But for your use case there is one thing open: the use of AntLibs and the need for registration of that tasks. The other open thing is the use of nested elements like s.
TheGuru

Thanks for sharing that, it will come in very handy for this ivy convert.

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Converting maven pom to ivy