I built a pipeline job which uses both the AnsiColorBuildWrapper and the Pipeline Maven plugin.

When I call:

withMaven(jdk: 'Java8 Auto Install', maven: 'Maven 3.2.2 Auto Install', mavenLocalRepo: '', mavenOpts: '', mavenSettingsFilePath: '') {
wrap([$class: 'AnsiColorBuildWrapper'])

}

I correctly get a colored output.

But if I switch the "withMaven" and the "wrap" blocks, I just see the control characters. I consider this a (minor) bug.