diff --git a/lib/java/Makefile.am b/lib/java/Makefile.am
index cb1332e..c5c7521 100644
--- a/lib/java/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/java/Makefile.am
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 # under the License.
 #
 
-EXTRA_DIST = build.xml ivy.xml src test
+EXTRA_DIST = build.xml src test
 
 export CLASSPATH
 
diff --git a/lib/java/build.xml b/lib/java/build.xml
index 7c66438..8147214 100644
--- a/lib/java/build.xml
+++ b/lib/java/build.xml
@@ -7,100 +7,127 @@
  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
  with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
+ 
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ 
  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
  KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
  specific language governing permissions and limitations
  under the License.
--->
+ -->
 <project name="libthrift" default="dist" basedir="."
   xmlns:ivy="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant"
   xmlns:artifact="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant">
-
+  
   <description>Thrift Build File</description>
-
-  <property environment="env" />
-
-  <property name="gen" location="gen-java" />
-  <property name="genbean" location="gen-javabean" />
-  <property name="mvn.ant.task.version" value="2.1.0" />
-  
-  <property name="src" location="src" />
-  <property name="build" location="build" />
-  <property name="javadoc" location="${build}/javadoc" />
-  <property name="install.path" value="/usr/local/lib" />
-  <property name="src.test" location="test" />
-  <property name="build.test" location="${build}/test" />
-  <property name="test.thrift.home" location="../../test"/>
   <property name="thrift.root" location="../../"/>
-  <property name="jar.file" location="${basedir}/libthrift.jar" />  
-  <property name="test.jar.file" location="${basedir}/libthrift-test.jar" />
-
-  <property file="${user.home}/.thrift-build.properties" />
-
-  <!-- ivy properties -->
-  <property name="ivy.version" value="2.0.0-rc2" />
-  <property name="ivy.dir" location="${build}/ivy" />
-  <property name="ivy.jar" location="${ivy.dir}/ivy-${ivy.version}.jar"/>
-  <property name="ivy.lib.dir" location="${ivy.dir}/lib" />
-  <property name="ivy_repo_url" value="http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/ivy/ivy/${ivy.version}/ivy-${ivy.version}.jar"/>
-  <property name="ivysettings.xml" location="${ivy.dir}/ivysettings.xml" />
-  <property name="mvn_ant_task_url" value="http://www.reverse.net/pub/apache/maven/binaries/maven-ant-tasks-${mvn.ant.task.version}.jar" />
-  <property name="mvn.ant.task.jar" location="${ivy.dir}/maven-ant-tasks-${mvn.ant.task.version}.jar" />
-  <property name="sources.zip" location="${build}/libthrift-src.zip" />
-  <property name="pom.file" location="${build}/pom.xml" />
+  <property name="thrift.version" value="0.6.0"/>
+  <property name="thrift.groupid" value="org.apache.thrift"/>
+  <property name="thrift.artifactid" value="libthrift"/>
   
-  <!-- TODO: Get the appropriate tokens / URL for upload -->  
-  <property name="apache.snapshot.repository" value="https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/snapshots" />
- 
+  <property name="mvn.ant.task.version" value="2.1.1"/>
+  <property name="ivy.version" value="2.2.0"/>
+   
+  <!-- Local install locations -->
+  <property name="install.path" value="/usr/local/lib"/>
+  <property name="install.javadoc.path" value="${install.path}"/>
+  
+  <!-- Dependency download location -->
+  <property name="mvn.repo" value="http://repo1.maven.org/maven2"/>
+  <property name="apache.repo" value="https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/releases"/>  
+  
+  <!-- Publish information-->
+  <property name="license" value="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt"/>
+  <property name="maven-repository-url" value="https://repository.apache.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2"/>
+  <property name="maven-repository-id" value="apache.releases.https"/>  
+  
+  <property environment="env"/>
+  
+  <condition property="version" value="${thrift.version}">
+    <isset property="release"/>
+  </condition>
+  <property name="version" value="${thrift.version}-snapshot"/>  
+  
+  <property name="final.name" value="${thrift.artifactid}-${version}"/>
+  
+  <property name="gen" location="gen-java"/>
+  <property name="genbean" location="gen-javabean"/>
+   
+  <property name="src" location="${basedir}/src"/>
+  <property name="build.dir" location="${basedir}/build"/>
+  <property name="build.lib.dir" location="${build.dir}/lib"/>
+  <property name="build.tools.dir" location="${build.dir}/tools"/>
+  <property name="src.test" location="test"/>
+  <property name="build.test.dir" location="${build.dir}/test"/>
+  <property name="test.thrift.home" location="${thrift.root}/test"/>
+  
+  <property name="javadoc.dir" location="${build.dir}/javadoc"/>
+  
+  <property name="jar.file" location="${build.dir}/${final.name}.jar"/>
+  <property name="test.jar.file" location="${build.dir}/${final.name}-test.jar"/>
+  <property name="javadoc.jar.file" location="${build.dir}/${final.name}-javadoc.jar"/>
+  <property name="source.tar.gz" location="${build.dir}/${final.name}-src.tar.gz"/>
+  
+  <!-- Junit properties -->
+  <property name="test.junit.output.format" value="plain"/>
+  <property name="test.timeout" value="2000000"/>
+  <property name="test.src.dir" location="${basedir}/test"/>
+  <property name="test.log.dir" value="${build.test.dir}/log"/>
+  <property name="test.port" value="9090"/>  
+  
+  <!-- iv properties -->  
+  <property name="ivy.repo.url" value="${mvn.repo}/org/apache/ivy/ivy/${ivy.version}/"/>
+  <property name="ivy.jar" value="${build.tools.dir}/ivy-${ivy.version}.jar"/>  
+  
+  <!-- maven properties -->
+  <property name="mvn.ant.task.url" value="${mvn.repo}/org/apache/maven/maven-ant-tasks/${mvn.ant.task.version}"/>
+  <property name="mvn.ant.task.jar" location="${build.tools.dir}/maven-ant-tasks-${mvn.ant.task.version}.jar"/>
+  <property name="pom.xml" location="${build.dir}/${final.name}.pom"/>
+  
+  <!-- custom override anything with a thrift-build.properties file in your home directory -->  
+  <property file="${user.home}/.thrift-build.properties"/>
+  
   <path id="compile.classpath">
-    <path refid="ivy.compile.classpath" />
+    <fileset dir="${build.lib.dir}"> 
+      <include name="**/*.jar"/>
+    </fileset>
   </path>
-
+  
   <path id="test.classpath">
-    <path refid="compile.classpath" />
-    <path refid="ivy.test.classpath" />
-    <pathelement path="${env.CLASSPATH}" />
-    <pathelement location="build/test" />
-    <pathelement location="${jar.file}" />
+    <path refid="compile.classpath"/>
+    <pathelement path="${env.CLASSPATH}"/>
+    <pathelement location="${build.test.dir}"/>
+    <pathelement location="${jar.file}"/>
+    <pathelement location="${test.jar.file}"/>
   </path>
-
-  <target name="init">
-    <tstamp />
-    <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
-    <mkdir dir="${build.test}" />
-    <!--
-    Allow Ivy to be disabled with "-Dnoivy=".
-    It is kind of a hack to pretend that we already found it,
-    but Ant doesn't provide an easy way of blocking dependencies
-    from executing or checking multiple conditions.
-    -->
-    <condition property="ivy.found"><isset property="noivy" /></condition>
-    <condition property="offline"><isset property="noivy" /></condition>
+  
+  <!-- Tasks -->  
+  <target name="init" depends="setup.init,ivy.init,mvn.init" unless="init.finished">
+    <property name="init.finished" value="true"/>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="ivy-init-dirs">
-    <mkdir dir="${ivy.dir}" />
-    <mkdir dir="${ivy.lib.dir}" />
+  
+  <target name="setup.init">
+    <tstamp/>
+    <mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${build.lib.dir}"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${build.tools.dir}"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${build.test.dir}"/>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="ivy-download" depends="ivy-init-dirs" description="To download ivy" unless="offline">
-    <get src="${ivy_repo_url}" dest="${ivy.jar}" usetimestamp="true"/>
+  
+  <target name="ivy.download" depends="setup.init" unless="ivy.found">
+    <get src="${ivy.repo.url}/ivy-${ivy.version}.jar" dest="${ivy.jar}" usetimestamp="true"/>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="ivy-probe-antlib">
+  
+  <target name="ivy.check" description="check if ivy is in the classpath">
     <condition property="ivy.found">
       <typefound uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" name="cleancache"/>
     </condition>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="ivy-init-antlib" depends="ivy-download,ivy-probe-antlib" unless="ivy.found">
-    <typedef uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" onerror="fail"
-      loaderRef="ivyLoader">
+  
+  <target name="ivy.init" depends="setup.init,ivy.check,ivy.download" unless="ivy.found">
+    <typedef uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" onerror="fail" loaderRef="ivyLoader">
       <classpath>
         <pathelement location="${ivy.jar}"/>
       </classpath>
@@ -111,110 +138,90 @@
           <typefound uri="antlib:org.apache.ivy.ant" name="cleancache"/>
         </not>
       </condition>
-      You need Apache Ivy 2.0 or later from http://ant.apache.org/
-      It could not be loaded from ${ivy_repo_url}
+      You need Apache Ivy 2.0 or later from ${ivy.repo.url}. It could not be loaded from ${ivy.jar}
     </fail>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="resolve" depends="ivy-init-antlib" description="retrieve dependencies with ivy" unless="noivy">
-    <ivy:retrieve />
-    <ivy:cachepath pathid="ivy.compile.classpath" conf="compile" />
-    <ivy:cachepath pathid="ivy.test.classpath" conf="test" />
+  
+  <target name="compile" depends="init">
+    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build.dir}" source="1.5" target="1.5" 
+    debug="true" classpathref="compile.classpath" includeantruntime="false"/>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="resolve-offline" depends="ivy-init-antlib" description="retrieve dependencies with ivy" if="noivy">
-    <path id="ivy.compile.classpath">
-      <fileset dir="${ivy.lib.dir}">
-        <include name="**/*.jar" />
-      </fileset>
-    </path>
-    <path id="ivy.test.classpath">
-    <!-- same as ivy.compile.classpath, but has to be defined -->
-    </path>
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="compile" depends="init,resolve,resolve-offline">
-    <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" source="1.5" target="1.5" debug="true" classpathref="compile.classpath" />
-  </target>
-
+  
   <target name="javadoc" depends="init">
-    <javadoc sourcepath="${src}"
-      destdir="${javadoc}"
-      version="true"
-      windowtitle="Thrift Java API"
-      doctitle="Thrift Java API"
+    <javadoc sourcepath="${src}" destdir="${javadoc.dir}"
+      version="true" windowtitle="Thrift Java API" doctitle="Thrift Java API"
       classpathref="test.classpath">
     </javadoc>
+    <jar jarfile="${javadoc.jar.file}" basedir="${javadoc.dir}">
+      <manifest>
+        <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="${version}"/>
+      </manifest>
+    </jar>
   </target>
-
+  
   <target name="dist" depends="compile">
-    <mkdir dir="${build}/META-INF"/>
-    <copy file="${thrift.root}/LICENSE" tofile="${build}/META-INF/LICENSE.txt"/>
-    <copy file="${thrift.root}/NOTICE" tofile="${build}/META-INF/NOTICE.txt"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${build.dir}/META-INF"/>
+    <copy file="${thrift.root}/LICENSE" tofile="${build.dir}/META-INF/LICENSE.txt"/>
+    <copy file="${thrift.root}/NOTICE" tofile="${build.dir}/META-INF/NOTICE.txt"/>
     <jar jarfile="${jar.file}">
-      <fileset dir="${build}">
-        <include name="org/apache/thrift/**/*.class" />
-        <include name="META-INF/*.txt" />
+      <manifest>
+        <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="${version}"/>
+      </manifest>
+      <fileset dir="${build.dir}">
+        <include name="org/apache/thrift/**/*.class"/>
+        <include name="META-INF/*.txt"/>
       </fileset>
       <fileset dir="src">
-        <include name="**/*.java" />
+        <include name="**/*.java"/>
       </fileset>
     </jar>
   </target>
-
+  
+  <target name="pack.src">
+    <tar destfile="${source.tar.gz}" basedir="${src}" compression="gzip"/>
+  </target>
+  
   <target name="install" depends="dist,javadoc">
     <copy todir="${install.path}">
-        <fileset dir="."><include name="*.jar" /></fileset>
+      <fileset dir="."><include name="*.jar"/></fileset>
     </copy>
     <copy todir="${install.javadoc.path}">
-      <fileset dir="${javadoc}">
-        <include name="**/*" />
+      <fileset dir="${javadoc.dir}">
+        <include name="**/*"/>
       </fileset>
     </copy>
   </target>
-
+  
   <target name="clean">
-    <delete dir="${build}" />
+    <delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
     <delete dir="${gen}"/>
     <delete dir="${genbean}"/>
-    <delete dir="${javadoc}"/>
-    <delete file="${jar.file}" />
-    <delete file="${test.jar.file}" />
   </target>
-
+  
   <target name="compile-test" description="Build the test suite classes" depends="generate,dist">
-    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${gen}" destdir="${build.test}" classpathref="test.classpath" />
-    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${genbean}" destdir="${build.test}" classpathref="test.classpath" />
-    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${src.test}" destdir="${build.test}" classpathref="test.classpath" />
-    <copy todir="${build.test}">
-      <fileset dir="${src.test}" includes="log4j.properties" />
+    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${gen}" destdir="${build.test.dir}" classpathref="test.classpath" includeantruntime="false"/>
+    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${genbean}" destdir="${build.test.dir}" classpathref="test.classpath" includeantruntime="false"/>
+    <javac debug="true" srcdir="${src.test}" destdir="${build.test.dir}" classpathref="test.classpath" includeantruntime="false"/>
+    <copy todir="${build.test.dir}">
+      <fileset dir="${src.test}" includes="log4j.properties"/>
     </copy>
-    <jar jarfile="${test.jar.file}" basedir="${build}/test"/>
+    <jar jarfile="${test.jar.file}" basedir="${build.test.dir}"/>
   </target>
-
-  <property name="build.test" location="${build.dir}/test"/>
-  <property name="test.junit.output.format" value="plain"/>
-  <property name="test.timeout" value="2000000"/>
-  <property name="test.src.dir" location="${basedir}/test"/>
-  <property name="test.log.dir" value="${build.test}/log"/>
-  <property name="test.port" value="9090" />
-
+  
   <target name="junit-test" description="Run the JUnit test suite" depends="compile-test">
     <mkdir dir="${test.log.dir}"/>
-    <junit
-      printsummary="yes" showoutput="${test.output}" 
-      haltonfailure="no" fork="yes" maxmemory="512m"
-      errorProperty="tests.failed" failureProperty="tests.failed"
-      timeout="${test.timeout}"
-    >
-      <sysproperty key="build.test" value="${build.test}"/>
-      <sysproperty key="test.port" value="${test.port}" />
+    <junit printsummary="true" showoutput="${test.output}" timeout="${test.timeout}" 
+      haltonfailure="no" errorProperty="tests.failed" failureProperty="tests.failed"
+      fork="true" forkmode="perTest" maxmemory="512m"
+      >
+      <sysproperty key="build.test" value="${build.test.dir}"/>
+      <sysproperty key="test.port" value="${test.port}"/>
       <sysproperty key="javax.net.ssl.trustStore" value="${src.test}/.truststore"/>
       <sysproperty key="javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword" value="thrift"/>
       <sysproperty key="javax.net.ssl.keyStore" value="${src.test}/.keystore"/>
       <sysproperty key="javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword" value="thrift"/>
       <classpath refid="test.classpath"/>
-      <formatter type="${test.junit.output.format}" />
+      <formatter type="${test.junit.output.format}"/>
       <batchtest todir="${test.log.dir}" unless="testcase">
         <fileset dir="${test.src.dir}">
           <include name="**/Test*.java"/>
@@ -224,90 +231,157 @@
         </fileset>
       </batchtest>
       <batchtest todir="${test.log.dir}" if="testcase">
-        <fileset dir="${test.src.dir}" includes="**/${testcase}.java" />
+        <fileset dir="${test.src.dir}" includes="**/${testcase}.java"/>
       </batchtest>
     </junit>
     <fail if="tests.failed">Tests failed!</fail>
   </target>
-
+  
   <target name="deprecated-test" description="Run the non-JUnit test suite" depends="compile-test">
-    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.EqualityTest"
-      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
-    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.JavaBeansTest"
-      classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true" />
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.EqualityTest" classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true"/>
+    <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.JavaBeansTest" classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true"/>
   </target>
-
+  
   <target name="test" description="Run the full test suite" depends="junit-test,deprecated-test"/>
-
+  
   <target name="testclient" description="Run a test client" depends="compile-test">
     <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.TestClient"
       classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true">
-      <arg line="${testargs}" />
+      <arg line="${testargs}"/>
     </java>
   </target>
-
+  
   <target name="testserver" description="Run a test server" depends="compile-test">
     <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.TestServer"
       classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true">
-      <arg line="${testargs}" />
+      <arg line="${testargs}"/>
     </java>
   </target>
-
+  
   <target name="testnonblockingserver" description="Run a test nonblocking server" depends="compile-test">
     <java classname="org.apache.thrift.test.TestNonblockingServer"
       classpathref="test.classpath" failonerror="true">
-      <arg line="${testargs}" />
+      <arg line="${testargs}"/>
     </java>
   </target>
-
+  
   <target name="generate">
+    <!-- Generate the thrift gen-java source -->
     <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift" failonerror="true">
-      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/ThriftTest.thrift" />
+      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/ThriftTest.thrift"/>
     </exec>
     <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift" failonerror="true">
-      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/DebugProtoTest.thrift" />
+      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/DebugProtoTest.thrift"/>
     </exec>
     <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift" failonerror="true">
-      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/OptionalRequiredTest.thrift" />
+      <arg line="--gen java:hashcode ${test.thrift.home}/OptionalRequiredTest.thrift"/>
     </exec>
     <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift" failonerror="true">
-      <arg line="--gen java:beans,nocamel ${test.thrift.home}/JavaBeansTest.thrift" />
+      <arg line="--gen java:beans,nocamel ${test.thrift.home}/JavaBeansTest.thrift"/>
     </exec>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="mvn.init">
-    <get src="${mvn_ant_task_url}" dest="${mvn.ant.task.jar}" usetimestamp="true" /> 
-    <path id="maven-ant-tasks.classpath" path="${mvn.ant.task.jar}" />
-  <taskdef resource="org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/antlib.xml"
-                        uri="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant"
-          classpathref="maven-ant-tasks.classpath" />
+  
+  <target name="mvn.ant.tasks.download" depends="setup.init" unless="mvn.ant.tasks.found">
+    <get src="${mvn.ant.task.url}/maven-ant-tasks-${mvn.ant.task.version}.jar" dest="${mvn.ant.task.jar}" usetimestamp="true"/>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="pack.src">
-    <zip destfile="${sources.zip}" basedir="${src}" />
+  
+  <target name="mvn.ant.tasks.check">
+    <condition property="mvn.ant.tasks.found">
+      <typefound uri="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant" name="artifact"/>
+    </condition>
+  </target>  
+  
+  <target name="mvn.init" depends="mvn.ant.tasks.download" unless="mvn.finished">
+    <!-- Download mvn ant tasks, download dependencies, and setup pom file -->
+    <typedef uri="antlib:org.apache.maven.artifact.ant" classpath="${mvn.ant.task.jar}"/>
+    
+    <!-- remote repositories used to download dependencies from -->
+    <artifact:remoteRepository id="central" url="${mvn.repo}"/>
+    <artifact:remoteRepository id="apache" url="${apache.repo}"/>
+    
+    <!-- Pom file information -->
+    <artifact:pom id="pom" 
+      groupId="${thrift.groupid}" 
+      artifactId="${thrift.artifactid}"
+      version="${version}" 
+      url="http://thrift.apache.org"
+      name="Apache Thrift"
+      description="Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development."
+      packaging="pom"
+      >
+      <remoteRepository refid="central"/>
+      <remoteRepository refid="apache"/>
+      <license name="The Apache Software License, Version 2.0" url="${license}"/>
+      <scm connection="scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift/trunk/" 
+      developerConnection="scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/thrift/trunk/"
+      url="http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/thrift"
+      />
+      <!-- Thrift Developers -->
+      <developer id="mcslee" name="Mark Slee"/>
+      <developer id="dreiss" name="David Reiss"/>
+      <developer id="aditya" name="Aditya Agarwal"/>
+      <developer id="marck" name="Marc Kwiatkowski"/>
+      <developer id="jwang" name="James Wang"/>
+      <developer id="cpiro" name="Chris Piro"/>
+      <developer id="bmaurer" name="Ben Maurer"/>
+      <developer id="kclark" name="Kevin Clark"/>
+      <developer id="jake" name="Jake Luciani"/>
+      <developer id="bryanduxbury" name="Bryan Duxbury"/>
+      <developer id="esteve" name="Esteve Fernandez"/>
+      <developer id="todd" name="Todd Lipcon"/>
+      <developer id="geechorama" name="Andrew McGeachie"/>
+      <developer id="molinaro" name="Anthony Molinaro"/>
+      <developer id="roger" name="Roger Meier"/>
+      
+      <!-- Thrift dependencies list -->
+      <dependency groupId="org.slf4j" artifactId="slf4j-api" version="1.5.8"/>
+      <dependency groupId="org.slf4j" artifactId="slf4j-log4j12" version="1.5.8"/>
+      <dependency groupId="commons-lang" artifactId="commons-lang" version="2.5"/>
+      <dependency groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" version="4.4"/>
+      <dependency groupId="javax.servlet" artifactId="servlet-api" version="2.5"/>
+      <dependency groupId="org.apache.httpcomponents" artifactId="httpclient" version="4.0.1"/>
+    </artifact:pom>
+    
+    <!-- Generate the pom file -->
+    <artifact:writepom pomRefId="pom" file="${pom.xml}"/>
+    
+    <!-- Download the dependencies -->
+    <artifact:dependencies filesetId="build-dependency-jars" pomRefId="pom"/>
+    
+    <!-- Copy the dependencies to the build/lib dir -->
+    <copy todir="${build.dir}/lib">
+      <fileset refid="build-dependency-jars"/>
+      <mapper type="flatten"/>
+    </copy>
+    
+    <property name="mvn.finished" value="true"/>
   </target>
-
-  <target name="generate.pom" depends="init,resolve" description="Generate a Maven POM file for libthrift">
-    <ivy:makepom ivyfile="${basedir}/ivy.xml" pomfile="${pom.file}" >
-      <mapping conf="default" scope="compile" />
-      <mapping conf="runtime" scope="runtime" />
-    </ivy:makepom>
-  </target>
-
-  <target name="publish" depends="test,dist,mvn.init,generate.pom,pack.src">
-    <artifact:pom id="pom" file="${pom.file}" />
-
-    <artifact:install file="${jar.file}">
-      <pom refid="pom"/>
-      <attach file="${sources.zip}" classifier="source" />
-    </artifact:install>
-
-    <artifact:remoteRepository id="remote.repository" url="${apache.snapshot.repository}" />
-
-    <artifact:deploy file="${jar.file}">
-      <remoteRepository refid="remote.repository" />
-      <pom refid="pom"/>
-      <attach file="${sources.zip}" classifier="source" />
-    </artifact:deploy>
+  
+  <macrodef name="signAndDeploy">
+    <!-- Sign and deploy jars to apache repo -->
+    <attribute name="file"/>
+    <attribute name="classifier" default=""/>
+    <attribute name="packaging" default="jar"/>
+    <sequential>
+      <artifact:mvn fork="true">
+        <arg value="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-gpg-plugin:1.1:sign-and-deploy-file"/>
+        <arg value="-DrepositoryId=${maven-repository-id}"/>
+        <arg value="-Durl=${maven-repository-url}"/>
+        <arg value="-DpomFile=${pom.xml}"/>
+        <arg value="-Dfile=@{file}"/>
+        <arg value="-Dclassifier=@{classifier}"/>
+        <arg value="-Dpackaging=@{packaging}"/>
+        <arg value="-Pgpg"/>
+      </artifact:mvn>
+    </sequential>
+  </macrodef>
+  
+  <target name="publish" depends="clean,init,test,dist,javadoc,pack.src">
+    <!-- Compile, package, test and then send release to apache maven repo -->
+    <!-- run with: ant -Drelease=true publish-->
+    <signAndDeploy file="${pom.xml}" packaging="pom" classifier=""/>
+    <signAndDeploy file="${jar.file}" packaging="jar" classifier=""/>
+    <signAndDeploy file="${javadoc.jar.file}" packaging="jar" classifier="javadoc"/>
+    <signAndDeploy file="${source.tar.gz}" packaging="src" classifier="tar.gz"/>
   </target>
 </project>
diff --git a/lib/java/ivy.xml b/lib/java/ivy.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6225e4c..0000000
--- a/lib/java/ivy.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-<!--
-   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-   limitations under the License.
--->
-<ivy-module version="1.0">
-    <info organisation="org.apache.thrift" module="libthrift" revision="0.6.0" >
-      <license name="Apache License 2.0" url="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0" />
-      <ivyauthor name="Thrift Developers" url="dev@thrift.apache.org" />
-      <repository name="apache repository" url="http://thrift.apache.org" />
-      <description homepage="http://thrift.apache.org">
-      Java bindings for the Apache Thrift RPC system
-      </description>
-    </info>
-    <configurations defaultconfmapping="compile">
-      <conf name="compile" />
-      <conf name="test" extends="compile" visibility="private" />
-    </configurations>
-    <dependencies>
-       <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api" rev="1.5.8" conf="* -> *,!sources,!javadoc"/>
-       <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-log4j12" rev="1.5.8" conf="test -> *,!sources,!javadoc"/>
-       <dependency org="commons-lang" name="commons-lang" rev="2.5" conf="* -> *,!sources,!javadoc"/>
-       <dependency org="junit" name="junit" rev="4.4" conf="test -> *,!sources,!javadoc"/>
-       <dependency org="javax.servlet" name="servlet-api" rev="2.5" conf="* -> *,!sources,!javadoc"/>
-       <dependency org="org.apache.httpcomponents" name="httpclient" rev="4.0.1" conf="* -> *,!sources,!javadoc"/>
-    </dependencies>
-</ivy-module>