I don’t think I deserved the downvotes but hey. Well anyway the problem was that I was referencing .jars within .jars, I didn’t think that this would be a problem but it was. The solution was to put the .jars (libraries) alongside my compiled application .jar and update the manifest accordingly. it is also possible … Read more
No, while it’s possible to execute Ant tasks in Maven using the Maven AntRun Plugin, Maven is completely independent from Ant. Like Ant, Maven is implemented in Java and you can configure it with XML. https://github.com/apache/maven solved Is Maven just a bunch of Ant scripts?
bat files cannot be converted directly to jar files. But you can implement bat file logic in a java application, using, for instance Apache Commons Exec and when it is compiled, package it as a jar file. 1 solved How to execute a .bat file with java program? [closed]