Mavent AntRun Not Executing Tasks

I encountered similar problems and it only worked when I added the version 1.8 tag. It wouldn't work otherwise. This might help.

Change ant from 1.7 to 1.8 solved my problem.

Andrew had the correct answer in his comments. When I moved my maven-antrun-plugin AS-IS above (with the <target> instead of <tasks>) OUT of <pluginManagement> and into a standalone <plugins>, my Ant task started executing.

Amazing how many searches of Google and Stackoverflow didn't return the other question before, but now I understand pluginManagement better. Thanks, Andrew!