Is there a way in the maven ant task to remove the files that it puts into your local .m2 directory? The situation is that I'm in a dual ant/maven environment. The projects that are built using ant are deployed to the maven remote repository using maven ant. The problem that I've noticed is that for -SNAPSHOT jars that maven ant deploys, it also copies the timestamped and build numbered version into the .m2 local repository but does not update the -SNAPSHOT jar in there. This leads to broken builds for maven builds that use this local repository since it can't actually pick up that the -SNAPSHOT jar is out of sync with the version that was just deployed.
More info can be found http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4093 -- Mercedes McCambridge - "I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room."
