We are pleased to announce the Maven Ant Plugin 1.8 release! http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/ant/ Generates ant build files from a maven project, so that plain ant users can build your project =============================================================================== Changes in this version include: New Features: o Add ant's setproxy tag. Fixes MPANT-9. Thanks to Jan Nielsen. Fixed bugs: o Use relative paths in directory properties. Fixes MPANT-16. Thanks to Brent Worden. Changes: o Compile tests and run them only if Junit is present in ANT (display a warning otherwise). =============================================================================== To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/ -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-ant-plugin -Dversion=1.8 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-ant-plugin-1.8.jar Have fun! -The Maven Ant Plugin development team