We are pleased to announce the Maven Ant Plugin 1.2 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 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Added the new maven.ant.excludedTests property 
o Added the maven.ant.generatebuild.file property and docs 
o Added more documentation on properties and supported SCM systems 

  Fixed bugs:

o If a project has no test source, the test targets are empty. 
o Fixing a chicken-and-egg problem. The "test" and "compile-tests" tasks were 
  putting target/${final.name}.jar into the classpath. But... the "jar" 
  target that creates that jarfile is dependent upon those two targets. So, 
  there was no way for the first two to succeed since the jarfile couldn't be 
  created. Now, the first two include target/classes in the classpath and all 
  is well.  

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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=1.2

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-ant-plugin-1.2.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Ant Plugin development team