maven life cycles task execution

Hello, Does anybody know if it's possible to execute something, e.g. ant task, before maven starts checking and downloading dependencies? I've tried specifying execution phases, but my task would still execute after dependencies have been resolved. Thanks. -- View this message in context:

setting ant attribute with value from pom

Hello, I'm having problem setting ant attribute with a property passed from pom file. Here is the pom part where I call ant target: ant antfile=build.xml target=update-dependencies-in-shared-repository property name=shared-repo