----- Introduction ----- Kenney Westerhof ----- 10 August 2005 ----- Introduction This plugin provides the ability to run Ant tasks from within Maven2. You can even embed your ant scripts in the POM! It is the intention of this plugin to provide a means of polluting the POM, so it's encouraged to move all your Ant tasks to a build.xml file and just call it from the POM using Ant's {{{http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/ant.html}\ task}}. One of the main goals of this plugin is to ease the migration from Ant based projects to Maven 2. A lot of projects are currently unable to migrate simply because they depend on some custom build functionality that Maven2 doesn't provide yet. Even with plugins widely available there will always be simple, small tasks that can be done using one or two lines of Ant script (like deploying an EAR), until ofcourse a plugin comes available that does the job.