Maven

<reporting>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3</version>
        <configuration>
          <configLocation>checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </reporting>

Maven and ANT maven-file-plugin maven-ear-plugin

 <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>deploy</phase>
            <configuration>
              <tasks>

                <!--
                  Place any Ant task here. You can add anything
                  you can add between <target> and </target> in a
                  build.xml.
                -->

              </tasks>
            </configuration>
            <goals>
              <goal>run</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>

Command
surefire-report:report;
cobertura:cobertura
pmd:pmd

maven ant

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <id>file-exists</id>
        <phase>pre-clean</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>run</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <tasks>
            <!-- adds the ant-contrib tasks (if/then/else used below) -->
            <taskdef resource="net/sf/antcontrib/antcontrib.properties" />
            <available 
              file="${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.${project.packaging}"
              property="file.exists" value="true" />

            <if>
              <not>
                <isset property="file.exists" />
              </not>
              <then>
                <echo>No
                  ${project.build.finalName}.${project.packaging} to
                  delete</echo>
              </then>
              <else>
                <echo>Deleting
                  ${project.build.finalName}.${project.packaging}</echo>
              </else>
            </if>
          </tasks>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>ant-contrib</groupId>
        <artifactId>ant-contrib</artifactId>
        <version>1.0b2</version>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </plugin>

codehaus: get coverage rate of junit: http://mojo.codehaus.org/cobertura-maven-plugin/usage.html

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    ...
    <plugins>
      ...
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <check>
            <branchRate>85</branchRate>
            <lineRate>85</lineRate>
            <haltOnFailure>true</haltOnFailure>
            <totalBranchRate>85</totalBranchRate>
            <totalLineRate>85</totalLineRate>
            <packageLineRate>85</packageLineRate>
            <packageBranchRate>85</packageBranchRate>
            <regexes>
              <regex>
                <pattern>com.example.reallyimportant.*</pattern>
                <branchRate>90</branchRate>
                <lineRate>80</lineRate>
              </regex>
              <regex>
                <pattern>com.example.boringcode.*</pattern>
                <branchRate>40</branchRate>
                <lineRate>30</lineRate>
              </regex>
            </regexes>
          </check>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>clean</goal>
              <goal>check</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>