can the maven maven-antrun-plugin plugin also be run similar to maven-install-plugin

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Please refer to Plugin Documentation.

When using the antrun plugin in Maven, it looks like I am forced to define a plugin block in build/plugins. Also we need to define executions. In the example below, we're defining one execution tied to Maven's package phase.

E.g.:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-ant-run-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.8</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>zip-artifacts</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <target>
                    <zip destfile="${project.basedir}/package.zip"
                       basedir="${project.build.directory}"
                       includes="*.jar" />
                </target>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

This is fine by itself. However, if we look at Guide to installing 3rd party JARs and install:install-file which is another popular Maven plugin. This plugin can is most commonly run like this-

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=your-artifact-1.0.jar \
                         [-DpomFile=your-pom.xml] \
                         [-Dsources=src.jar] \
                         [-Djavadoc=apidocs.jar] \
                         [-DgroupId=org.some.group] \
                         [-DartifactId=your-artifact] \
                         [-Dversion=1.0] \
                         [-Dpackaging=jar] \
                         [-Dclassifier=sources] \
                         [-DgeneratePom=true] \
                         [-DcreateChecksum=true]

Can the Maven antrun plugin also be run similarly without the explicit inclusion in pom.xml in plugins and configuring execution and typing to maven lifecycle phase?

If so, can you share an example.

Why would I want this? Let’s say am having a largely Maven-based project. However, there is some substantial work am also doing using Ant. I need to invoke Ant a few times. I also need to do Maven builds a few times to get this whole project to work. When I share this project to others I want to minimize the switch from Maven to Ant. I would rather they use just one build tool.

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