The maven team is pleased to announce the Maven Ant Plugin 1.8.1 release!
http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/ant/ Generates ant build files from a maven project, so that plain ant users can build your project Changes in this version include: Fixed bugs: o Use relative paths in test resources filesets. Issue: MPANT-16. To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line: maven plugin:download -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-ant-plugin -Dversion=1.8.1 For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-ant-plugin-1.8.1.jar Have fun! -The maven team
