Integrating Maven & Non-maven projects

Question

I\'m currently working on two projects simultaneously:

• My main project (built with maven)
• A spike of an open source project, which my main project d

Answer 1

The solution I've used is the maven-ant tasks (http://maven.apache.org/ant-tasks/).

I added an install task onto the build.xml file, which installs the compiled .jar into the local repo.

While adding a full-fledged pom to the project would defintely be the best approach, this is a major chunk of work, and inflicts maven on the project (where the other users would prefer not to use it).