diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 5e3d0c8d4..cda02f316 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
 <!-- build configuration -->
-<project name="narya" default="compile" basedir=".">
+<project name="narya" default="compile" basedir="." xmlns:artifact="urn:maven-artifact-ant">
 
   <!-- import overriding properties -->
   <property file="build.properties"/>
@@ -16,26 +16,33 @@
 
   <import file="etc/libs-incl.xml"/>
 
-  <!-- declare our classpath business -->
-  <path id="classpath">
-    <pathelement location="${classes.dir}"/>
-    <fileset dir="${deploy.dir}/lib" includes="**/*.jar"/>
-  </path>
+  <property name="maven-ant.vers" value="2.1.1"/>
+  <property name="maven-ant.dir" value="${user.home}/.m2/ant-support"/>
+  <property name="maven-ant.jar" value="${maven-ant.dir}/maven-ant-tasks-${maven-ant.vers}.jar"/>
+  <property name="maven-ant.url"
+            value="http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/apache/maven/binaries"/>
+  <condition property="maven-ant.exists"><available file="${maven-ant.jar}"/></condition>
+  <target name="-download-maven-ant" unless="maven-ant.exists">
+    <mkdir dir="${maven-ant.dir}"/>
+    <get src="${maven-ant.url}/maven-ant-tasks-${maven-ant.vers}.jar" 
+         dest="${maven-ant.jar}" usetimestamp="true"/>
+  </target>
 
-  <!-- checks the availability of certain libraries -->
-  <target name="check-available" depends="prepare">
-    <available property="ehcache.present" classpathref="classpath"
-               classname="net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager"/>
-    <echo level="info" message="Have EHCache: ${ehcache.present}"/>
-    <condition property="gwt.present"><and>
-        <available classname="com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT" classpathref="classpath"/>
-        <available classname="com.threerings.gwt.ui.Widgets" classpathref="classpath"/>
-    </and></condition>
-    <echo level="info" message="Have GWT: ${gwt.present}"/>
+  <target name="-init-maven-ant" depends="-download-maven-ant">
+    <taskdef resource="org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/antlib.xml"
+             uri="urn:maven-artifact-ant" classpath="${maven-ant.jar}"/>
+    <artifact:dependencies pathId="maven.classpath">
+      <dependency groupId="com.samskivert" artifactId="jmustache" version="1.0"/>
+    </artifact:dependencies>
   </target>
 
   <!-- prepares the application directories -->
-  <target name="prepare">
+  <target name="prepare" depends="-init-maven-ant">
+    <path id="classpath">
+      <path refId="maven.classpath"/>
+      <pathelement location="${classes.dir}"/>
+      <fileset dir="${deploy.dir}/lib" includes="**/*.jar"/>
+    </path>
     <mkdir dir="${deploy.dir}"/>
     <mkdir dir="${deploy.dir}/lib"/>
     <mkdir dir="${classes.dir}"/>
@@ -49,6 +56,18 @@
     </copy>
   </target>
 
+  <!-- checks the availability of certain libraries -->
+  <target name="check-available" depends="prepare">
+    <available property="ehcache.present" classpathref="classpath"
+               classname="net.sf.ehcache.CacheManager"/>
+    <echo level="info" message="Have EHCache: ${ehcache.present}"/>
+    <condition property="gwt.present"><and>
+        <available classname="com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT" classpathref="classpath"/>
+        <available classname="com.threerings.gwt.ui.Widgets" classpathref="classpath"/>
+    </and></condition>
+    <echo level="info" message="Have GWT: ${gwt.present}"/>
+  </target>
+
   <!-- makes sure our tools are compiled and defines the ant tasks -->
   <target name="preptools" depends="prepare">
     <javac srcdir="src/java" destdir="${classes.dir}" includeAntRuntime="false"
@@ -218,6 +237,9 @@
     <jar destfile="${deploy.dir}/${lib.name}-tests.jar">
       <fileset dir="tests/${classes.dir}" includes="com/threerings/**"/>
     </jar>
+    <artifact:dependencies filesetId="mustache.fileset">
+      <dependency groupId="com.samskivert" artifactId="jmustache" version="1.0"/>
+    </artifact:dependencies>
     <!-- build a dependencies-included version of narya-tools -->
     <taskdef name="jarjar" classname="com.tonicsystems.jarjar.JarJarTask"
              classpathref="classpath"/>
@@ -228,7 +250,7 @@
         <include name="com/threerings/util/**"/>
       </fileset>
       <zipfileset src="${deploy.dir}/lib/samskivert.jar"/>
-      <zipfileset src="${deploy.dir}/lib/jmustache-1.0.jar"/>
+      <zipfileset refid="mustache.fileset"/>
       <rule pattern="com.samskivert.**" result="cs.@1"/>
       <zipfileset src="${deploy.dir}/lib/javassist.jar"/>
       <rule pattern="javassist.**" result="ja.@1"/>