Ant target depends on gulp task

Question

I have a build xml file in my project which packages my java web app (Java, JavaScript, jsp) into a war file. There is an empty post-compile target in the build file. I would like to have this task minify and concatenate my js and amend script tags of the jsp s so that they reflect and reference the concatenated files.

I wanted to use gulp to do this (I couldn't find an ant target for modifying the jsp s appropriately). But how can I then have the subsequent ant task which comes after post-compile , only be called upon completion of my gulp tasks (minifying, concatenating and modifying jsp script tags)?

Answer 1

I added a target to my build.xml which called gulp (this target " depends " on the previous target in my build process (for netbeans found in build-impl.xml )):

<target depends="-copy-webdir" name="-post-compile">
    <exec vmlauncher="false" executable="gulp" dir="${basedir}"/>
</target>

This way I was able to integrate my gulpfile.js into the build process that netbeans generates.

Any suggestions, improvements or comments are still welcome.

Answer 2

Based on @theyuv answer, I updated build.xml in my project as

<exec executable="gulp" osfamily="unix" dir="${component.source.dir}">
      <arg line="@{gulpargs}"/>
</exec>