Ok, I'm deleting it. Another related question: In build.xml there is: <patternset id="non.java.sources"> <include name="**/*.properties" /> <include name="**/*.xml" /> <include name="**/*.xsl" /> <include name="**/*.dtd" /> <include name="**/*.ent" /> <include name="**/*.tld" /> <include name="**/*.vm" /> <include name="**/*.cfg" /> <include name="**/*.txt" /> <include name="META-INF/services/com.*" /> <exclude name="web/**" /> <exclude name="perl/**" /> <exclude name="${main.src.dir}/web.xml" /> </patternset> I assume that the following 2 lines can be safely removed because they never match. Is that correct? <exclude name="web/**" /> <exclude name="perl/**" /> The only place where non.java.sources is used is: <copy todir="${classes.dir}"> <fileset dir="${java.main.src.dir}"> <patternset refid="non.java.sources" /> </fileset> </copy> And in ${java.main.src.dir} there are no web/, perl/ or ${main.src.dir}/web.xml directories or files. [snip] Thanks -Vincent _________________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com