updates to the ant tasks

[Brett Porter <br...@apache.org>]

Here are the things that have been implemented. Other than incorporating 
the profiles support, I think the feature set is complete. Anyone have 
any other thoughts?

- added the ability to exclude specific transitive dependencies from 
being pulled in from a specific dependency
- ability to use a POM to specify dependencies and repositories, in 
addition to the ant types
- full support for external configuration (proxies, authentication info, 
repository mirrors, local repository location). The search order is 
~/.ant/settings.xml, then ~/.m2/settings.xml
- ability to export properties or references from the pom:
 <artifact:setProperty property="parent.artifact.id 
<http://parent.artifact.id>" expression="project.parent.artifactId" 
pomRefId="maven.project" />
 <artifact:setProperty ref="developers" expression="project.developers" 
pomRefId="maven.project" /> (not sure whether this is a useful thing or 
not - I just thought references made sense for object types)

Cheers,
Brett

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