running beehive without ant

[S . Bloch]

Hi

Is there a way to run beehive without using ant?? 

I was looking at AptTask.java and i've got a problem with:

        setExecutable("apt");

To be honest, i don't know what it does. I'm trying to make maven2 plugin. 
To do it i need only to know a way to run it from commandline or 
understand which method should i invoke from which class to make it start.

Pozdrawiam
Sebastian Błoch