Convert project to Maven.
Added POM and moved files to folders that maven expects.
Removed examples since they were moved to another folder.
Include license in binary build.
Set some dependencies as optional.
Initial import into GitHub
Rename package.html to package-info.html

The file package.html is not included in the JAR archive resulting from the Maven JAR Plugin execution.
Remove unused Javadoc files
Remove Ant files
Minor format cleanup
Maven build file clean up

Readying Maven for uploading artifacts to the central repository
Merge maven branch into master