Hi, Some time ago I've launched a discussion about a new Ant+Ivy based build system, that I called EasyAnt. Based on the discussion we've had so far, I've developed a small proof of concept, which is available here: http://people.apache.org/~xavier/easyant-POC-0.1.zip
If you have some time, please have a look, there's a README file at the root of the main directory in the zip, explaining how to try it, and how it works. I'd appreciate to get some feedback on the concepts developed, and especially those requiring changes in Ant: mainly use and extends mode for Import and the phase concept (explained in the README and more extensively in the todo.txt). Xavier PS: don't pay too much attention to the code itself, it's rather ugly and undocumented, but it's just a POC :-) -- Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant http://xhab.blogspot.com/ http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ http://www.xoocode.org/