use Maven's artifact handling features from Ant

 The Mavent Ant Tasks allow several of Maven's artifact handling features to
 be used from within an Ant build. These include:
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   * Dependency management - including transitive dependencies, scope
     recognition and SNAPSHOT handling.
   * Artifact deployment - deployment to a Maven repository (file integrated,
     other with extensions)
   * POM processing - for reading and writing a Maven 2 pom.xml file.