I've just merged the changes I've made to Ant's CVS HEAD to the 1.6 branch so that Ant 1.6.1 will contain some initial support for Java 1.5. It will basically be treated as if it was Java 1.4 with some minor additions to the <javac> task.

The longer term plan is to support JSR 199 compatible compilers - as J2SDK 1.5 promises to deliver - in Ant's task directly. More may follow once the documentation for Java 1.5 is available.

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