Ant + JavaFront: start Ant tasks from the command line

Reading the blog Converting maven pom to ivy I asked myself, why it should not be possible to start Ant tasks from the command line.
Stefan on the other side was bored always to here that Ant relies on XML and he presented a way for writing Buildfiles in plain (annotated) Java using JavaFront, a library [...]

Long time ago …

My last commit to Args4J was long time ago. But I was happy, that my environment works – and also my knowledge about the project itself And the pause was fine because I startet a new try to implement the setting of Map-entries …. with success. Now you can have a bean with
@Option(name=“-map“) [...]