The Pluto Ant Tasks have been created to assist those not using maven with the assembly, deployment, and publishing of Maven. A usage example is shown below:
<path id="classes">
<!--
Pluto Ant Tasks depend upon the following libraries:
* pluto-ant-tasks-${version}.jar
* pluto-util-${version}.jar
* pluto-descriptor-api-${version}.jar
* pluto-descriptor-util-${version}.jar
* commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
* castor-1.1.1.jar
-->
<fileset dir="/path/to/pluto-libraries" includes="**/*.jar"/>
<fileset dir="/path/to/commons-logging" includes="**/*.jar"/>
<fileset dir="/path/to/castor" includes="**/*.jar"/>
</path>
<typedef name="passemble" classname="org.apache.pluto.ant.AssembleTask"
classpathref="classes"/>
<target name="passemble">
<passemble
webxml="src/config/web.xml"
portletxml="src/config/portlet.xml"
destfile="src/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml"/>
</target>