The information about the combination of these two goodies is to say the least scarce. I decided to create a minimal small POC project which
Full credit to Ittai who helped me out with this post.
1-Has a self contained Maven POM, which works out of the box without any major modifications.
2-Explicitly invokes AntInstaller via a configuration file while utilizing an antinstaller properties file
3-Is easy to understand and expand.
An intresting post on CM / RELENG see: http://www.dzone.com/links/r/configuration_management_position_can_be_do...
I think we can add to the What are CM responsibilities? in whole it's a great stright to the point article.
Enjoy
Maven is crap, Ant is better, Rake for the rescue...
Yet another blog entry (updated) to support my approach in the last 6 years...
Apparently without us noticing it is the 12th of January already and Ant 1.80RC1 has been released 
I stumbled on this project. I don't know how good it is, and can't evaluate it since I'm not in .Net, but the tagline sounds good. What do the .Net guys think?
Nice macros to merge XML files with ANT
https://blog.coremedia.com/cm/
I have multiple modules project built partially with Maven (pure Java modules) and partially with ANT with IVY dependencies management (mixed Java and other technologies modules).
I have an IVY module that depends on another IVY module, which depends on Maven module.
('IVY module X' <- 'IVY module Y' <- 'Maven module Z')
When Y is coming from maven repository (Nexus) , X doesn't get the transitive dependency Z as I would expect expect.
I couldn't find anything on the net, so the workaround for now is to define Z as another dependency of X...