Invoke Ant build from Maven

The jar created by the Ant build can be then attached to the project using the Build Helper Maven plugin.

Consider the following example snippet of the pom.xml

<plugins>

   <plugin>

        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

         <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>

         <version>1.7</version>
            <executions>
              <execution>
                <tasks>
                      Place any Ant task here
                </tasks>
             </execution>
           <executions>

   </plugin>

 </plugins>

If required, you can then attach the jar created by the Ant build to this Maven project using another plugin named "build-helper-maven-plugin".

This plugin has various goals like build-helper:add-resource and build-helper:attach-artifact

Detailed information on this plugin can found here.