Maven

Paul, 
Here are the files to create the Maven artifacts.  I've created several scripts for you, as a starting point.  If you think of other ways we can streamline this further, let me know.  I'm sure it can be automated even more when myself or someone else has the time.

Please see instructions.txt under build/maven for explanations.

thanks
Eric

p.s. oh yeah, by the way I started working on some Ant scripts as well... originally I had thought we could have Travis produce Maven snapshots every time it built.  So I looked into how to call Maven from Ant. That's why the maven ant tasks was added to build-tasks.properties.  But I'm not using it at the moment.