In case you missed it, version 2.0 of Maven has been released.
"Maven 2.0 is a rewrite of the popular Maven application, designed to both address previous functional requirements and provide a stable platform for extending and enhancing its build management framework."
I currently use Maven 1.X to generate the website but might start using Maven 2 for the projects as well. Even though I'll have to change my project structure around (it's probably for the best) and I might not have as much flexibility as using Ant directly (not that I'm using Ant in anger), but using Maven seems to give you a lot in return (including structure).
One interesting feature though for people who want more control are the "Maven ant-tasks" that (according to the website) allow you to perform:
Added a (hopefully complete) reference list of JAXP Factory Implementations available.
Could not an office application but a platform independent desktop be the next big thing?
http://www.sun.com/software/javadesktopsystem/
http://desktop.google.com/
Added TransformationFactory, Source and Result method descriptions. Added examples validating using the SAXParserFactory and using the DocumentBuilderFactory for both XML Schema and DTD. Updated JAXB adding JaxMe.