How to convert Ant project to Maven project

Question

How to convert a Ant project to Maven project? A sample project that would link (a Wicket project)

Thanks

Answer 1

The nice part of using maven is that most standard stuff works automatically once you do things the maven way. For a simple webapp:

1. Create a pom with groupId, artifactId and version (packaging: war)
2. Add the required dependencies to the pom
3. move the
   • java sources to src/main/java,
   • resources to src/main/resources,
   • webapp content to src/main/webapp,
   • test content to src/test/java and src/test/resources
4. set the compiler compliance version using the maven compiler plugin

That should get you up 'n' running.

Answer 2

http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/04/how-to-convert-from-ant-to-maven-in-5-minutes/

I don't know what your ant script looks like, but assuming its a basic script for building, you will need to create a pom.xml file for your project, add your dependencies, and then build it via maven.