Ant Dep

Ant Dep is a tool for projects which use Ant as main build mechanism, but want to use Maven (1 or 2) to declare project metadata, in particular its dependencies.

Ant Dep has been used for years (supporting Maven 1.x). On Unix environments, maven antdep reads the Maven descriptor and generates a script which creates symbolic links in project-relative folders to the concrete jar files in the Maven repository. On non-unix environments, such libraries are copied instead.

For those interested in stable, Maven1 plugin, checkout the maven1 branch. Otherwise stay tuned to the trunk.