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Anybody could explain me why do you use maven. As I understand the main purpose of maven is a support of dependencies between modules/components in project. Other task such as reporting, documentation and others is not important. In this case it would be much more useful/simple to use less complicated tool. But it looks like there is no such one, I looked at Ant Ivy - it is simpler but for me it is not enough
As a developer I should provide two files for my module

1. build.xml is used to build module
2. module.xml describes module dependencies

For example module.xml describes dependencies in two scopes: production and test

<module name="module1" version="1.2.3.4">
    <production>
        <dependency name="module3" version="1.2.3"/>
        <dependency name="module5" version="1.2.2"/>
        <dependency name="module7" version="1.2.12"/>
    </production>
    <test>
        <dependency name="module23" version="1.2.4"/>
        <dependency name="module27" version="1.2.9"/>
    </test>
</module>

If every module in project will provide such metainf it is very easy to create build.xml (for example it wiil contain a series of ant calls of build.xml for every component included into build) to build complete project. That is all what you need, no maven, no ivy - just simple tool.
What do you think, may be I too simplified a problem, I am not sure but I do not see any resons to use maven.