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 WritePom
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 Paul Gier
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 2009-11-18
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The WritePom Task

  <<Note: This task is available since version 2.1.0 of the maven ant tasks>>

  The WritePom task can be used to generate a POM file based on information defined in 
  the Ant build.  For example, this could be used to generate a POM used when 
  deploying build artifacts to a Maven repository.

  The first step is to define a pom using the pom task.

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  <artifact:pom id="mypom1" groupId="org.acme" artifactId="project1" version="1.0" name="My awesome project">
    <license name="apache" url="http://www.apache.org"/>
    <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="4.1" scope="test"/>
    <dependency groupId="org.codehaus.plexus" artifactId="plexus-utils" version="1.5.5"/>
  </artifact:pom>
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  The next step is to call the writePom task using the pom id created above.
  
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  <artifact:writepom pomRefId="mypom1" file="target/mypom1.xml"/>
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  This will generate a pom in the location specified.
  
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>org.acme</groupId>
  <artifactId>project1</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <name>My awesome project</name>
  <licenses>
    <license>
      <name>apache</name>
      <url>http://www.apache.org/</url>
    </license>
  </licenses>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>4.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.plexus</groupId>
      <artifactId>plexus-utils</artifactId>
      <version>1.5.5</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>
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  By default the <<<writePom>>> task will not include unnecessary information such as build configuration, 
  repositories, and profiles.  If this information is needed in the pom, the "trim" option can be set to false.

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  <artifact:writepom pomRefId="mypom1" file="target/mypom1.xml" trim="false"/>
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