Advice Needed: Best way to use Maven (w. Eclipse/Struts/Spring/Hibernate/svn/ant)

[etienno]

Hi,

i am starting a new project with probably 8 java programmers. I have
started many Web-Struts-Hibernate-Spring project using ANT and Eclipse
(under cvs or svn) and I feel ready to use Maven. I would like to
automated my Unit Testing, deployement procedure (directly on
developement environment using Telnet-ssh commands and SFTP) and
Documentation updates. Is there some hint I could get from poeple using
Maven already. Per exemple I have learned that the Maven Eclipse Plugin
may be bugged. I dont want to waste my time on bugged product.

What is the best way to implement Maven in a new Project? Should I keep
Ant? but for what only? Or should I replace ant totally by Maven?

Thanks All

Etienne