add maven support

I have no problem with that as long as I do not have to use maven myself.

Problem is I don't know where to start and have too little time to investigate.

It's quite simple - just like described here http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-standard-directory-layout.html

I can not prepare the movement patch - svn does not handle file moves well through a patch like git does.

So it's not only about publishing artifacts, you'd also like to be able to build BTM with maven. Sorry but that's the least of my priorities.

I've been quite happy with ant and as the sole project developer (at least until now) I don't feel the need for a new build system so I see no reason to switch to maven.

I think if BTM appears in public maven repo it will have the upper hand in standalone jta provider field.
For now the only standalone provider in main maven repo is jotm. Neither atomikos, simple-jta or jboss-tx not present in it.

I've uploaded the latest BTM snapshot jar and (a slightly edited version of) your pom file to the Codehaus snapshot maven repository:
http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/org/codehaus/btm

Could you please give it a try by adding this repository to your maven's repository list to see if it works ?

If that's the case, I'll publish released BTM versions to the real Codehaus repository which is replicated to the maven central repository.

Works just fine. Thanks for publishing artifact!

I've published the 1.2 artifacts to the real repository. They're now available at: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/codehaus/btm/

Subsequent versions will be published as well and some documentation will be added regarding this.

POM has been added and publication has been tested.