I have to deal with what is pretty ugly and large blob of ColdFusion code which up to this day is maintained by direct modifications on production server (don\'t ask). I managed
Maven looked interesting to me too, but I couldn't find enough resources, and didn't have enough time to figure it out, so I moved onto what seemed to be good as well.
I understand you prefer to use Maven, I have come across several articles regarding Ant and Coldfusion, as well as a recent one about Hudson with Coldfusion.
Coldfusion also has the cfant (undocumented) tag. You can run ANT scripts right from CF?