> As a maven advocate I've commonly seen this claimed ("we have to have an ant build because we need to do x/y/z custom thing") but I've never seen an example t

> As a maven advocate I've commonly seen this claimed ("we have to have an ant build because we need to do x/y/z custom thing") but I've never seen an example that held up under scrutiny. In my experience, this just means they don't know how to do custom thing in Maven. Maven is very configurable; it can do pretty much anything you want, as long as you're willing to throw enough XML at it. And if you are throwing a ton of XML at it, and your pom file starts to look like a nuclear disaster, that's a good sign that the custom thing you're doing isn't such a good idea after all.