= Platform Deployment Build Ant =
To integrate Ant with Maven you have to use maven-antrun-plugin, so you just have to add the following section in your pom.xml file of the parent project:

<build>
   <plugins>
      <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 
         <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
 
         <executions>
            <execution>
               <phase>compile</phase>
 
               <configuration>
		<!-- Put the Ant Tasks that you wish to call here -->
                  <tasks>
                     <echo>Copy Resources </echo>
 
                     <copy file="${basedir}/source" tofile="${basedir}/target/" overwrite="true" />
                  </tasks>
               </configuration>
 
               <goals>
                  <goal>run</goal>
               </goals>
            </execution>
         </executions>
      </plugin>
   </plugins>
</build>

As you can see in tasks section you can add any task you want. This is the same as target section in build.xml ant file.[[BR]]
Good tutorial to get into Apache Ant: http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/docs/tutorials/docsystem/build/tutorials/ant/ant.html