After needing such a thing for awhile, I have started developing a distributed version of Ant that uses SOAP to lauch Ant builds on remote hosts. I've worked with Apache SOAP a good bit, so that is what I am using. After an afternoon of work I have the following: * A SOAP service which takes 2 arguments (buildFile, target) * a taskdef which invokes this service over SOAP It seems like with just a bit more work I can produce something pretty useful (at least to me). I am guessing that this would be outside the scope of Ant itself (but chime in if you think otherwise). I have been thinking of this as a new project, which I have dubbed "Rant" which is short for remote ant. My questions are: Is this useful to others? Does this duplicate an existing project? Would Apache be interested in hosting it? If not, could it be linked to from the Ant website? Regardless of the answers to these questions, I will post what I have here as soon as I have enough to feel like its worth sharing. Any comments/suggestions are welcome. --Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: