Currently dependencies are just handled as before, with all dependencies copied into lib/

I propose to replace lib/ with a local maven repository (just a simple directory structure). This will only be used if present (not present in CVS, created using dependency:copy-dependencies when running dist target). The fileset's used to declare example libraries and inclusion into deployed archives will be altered to use maven ant tasks to pull in these filesets from repositories (using the local repo if present).

This requires some extensions to existing ant tasks.

A similar scheme can be used for seam-gen