diff --git a/maven-artifact-ant/sample.build.xml b/maven-artifact-ant/sample.build.xml
index 13cf386d06..c37d02cba1 100644
--- a/maven-artifact-ant/sample.build.xml
+++ b/maven-artifact-ant/sample.build.xml
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@
     <artifact:pom file="pom.xml" id="maven.project"/>
 
     <artifact:dependencies pathId="dependency.classpath" filesetId="dependency.fileset">
-      <dependency groupId="org.apache.maven.wagon" artifactId="wagon-provider-test" version="1.0-alpha-2"/>
+      <dependency groupId="org.apache.maven.wagon" artifactId="wagon-provider-test" version="1.0-alpha-2">
+        <exclusion groupId="junit" artifactId="junit" />
+      </dependency>
       <dependency groupId="org.codehaus.modello" artifactId="modello-core" version="1.0-alpha-2-SNAPSHOT"/>
       <localRepository refid="local.repository"/>
     </artifact:dependencies>
diff --git a/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/DependenciesTask.java b/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/DependenciesTask.java
index 57420e9c04..ac9f4e8fbf 100755
--- a/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/DependenciesTask.java
+++ b/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/DependenciesTask.java
@@ -26,13 +26,14 @@ import org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactResolutionResult;
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactResolver;
 import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProjectBuilder;
 import org.apache.maven.project.artifact.MavenMetadataSource;
+import org.apache.maven.model.Exclusion;
+import org.apache.maven.model.Dependency;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileList;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path;
 
 import java.util.ArrayList;
-import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -67,7 +68,12 @@ public class DependenciesTask
 
         ArtifactFactory factory = (ArtifactFactory) lookup( ArtifactFactory.ROLE );
 
-        Set artifacts = new HashSet();
+        ArtifactResolver resolver = (ArtifactResolver) lookup( ArtifactResolver.ROLE );
+        MavenMetadataSource metadataSource = new MavenMetadataSource( resolver, (MavenProjectBuilder) lookup(
+            MavenProjectBuilder.ROLE ) );
+
+        Set artifacts = metadataSource.createArtifacts( dependencies, null, null );
+/*
         for ( Iterator i = dependencies.iterator(); i.hasNext(); )
         {
             Dependency dependency = (Dependency) i.next();
@@ -76,10 +82,7 @@ public class DependenciesTask
                                                  null );
             artifacts.add( a );
         }
-
-        ArtifactResolver resolver = (ArtifactResolver) lookup( ArtifactResolver.ROLE );
-        MavenMetadataSource metadataSource = new MavenMetadataSource( resolver, (MavenProjectBuilder) lookup(
-            MavenProjectBuilder.ROLE ) );
+*/
 
         log( "Resolving dependencies..." );
 
diff --git a/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/Dependency.java b/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/Dependency.java
deleted file mode 100755
index 31ff82dba1..0000000000
--- a/maven-artifact-ant/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/artifact/ant/Dependency.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,87 +0,0 @@
-package org.apache.maven.artifact.ant;
-
-/*
- * Copyright 2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-/**
- * TODO: describe
- *
- * @author <a href="mailto:brett@apache.org">Brett Porter</a>
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public class Dependency
-{
-    private String groupId;
-    private String artifactId;
-    private String version;
-    private String scope = "compile";
-    private String type = "jar";
-
-    public String getGroupId()
-    {
-        return groupId;
-    }
-
-    public void setGroupId( String groupId )
-    {
-        this.groupId = groupId;
-    }
-
-    public String getArtifactId()
-    {
-        return artifactId;
-    }
-
-    public void setArtifactId( String artifactId )
-    {
-        this.artifactId = artifactId;
-    }
-
-    public String getVersion()
-    {
-        return version;
-    }
-
-    public void setVersion( String version )
-    {
-        this.version = version;
-    }
-
-    public String getScope()
-    {
-        return scope;
-    }
-
-    public void setScope( String scope )
-    {
-        this.scope = scope;
-    }
-
-    public String getType()
-    {
-        return type;
-    }
-
-    public void setType( String type )
-    {
-        this.type = type;
-    }
-
-    public String toString()
-    {
-        return groupId + ":" + artifactId + ":" + version + ":" + type + " [scope = " + scope + "]";
-    }
-}