How to build child modules independently from parent in Maven?

How do you force maven to execute antrun:run task after all the package tasks in a POM with child modules?

• I have a parent POM with a bunch of child modules. I want to run an antrun:run task after all the children have executed a package task (I'm using Ant to package my app since i gave up figuring out how to get assembly to work correctly). I need to have the antrun task execute *after* all the children - but I can't associate it with package phase since parent gets "packaged" before children, and i need ant to run afterwards. Is there a way to do it in one command? Easy workaround, of course, is to run 2 maven commands, but i want to do it in one, if possible.

• Answer:

  People on StackOverflow ended up being faster and brighter: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3375574/how-do-you-force-maven-to-execute-antrunrun-task-after-all-the-package-tasks-in The key is to have another subproject that does all the relevant antrun:run packaging, and have that be at the end of your modules. While not the most maveny way, it certainly works quite well. yay!