I am using ant to combine multiple independant build processes under one umbrella. Once I get beyond some initialization which applies to the whole process, I'd like to make the umbrella build tolerant of failures within the previously independant builds. Furthermore, in the event of a failure in one of the builds, I'd like to e-mail notification of the failure, along with an attached log of the build. I am not aware of a way to do this with the existing Ant functionality. If I am wrong in this, please enlighten me. What I propose to accomodate this is an task. It would contain a element, implemented by a private NestedSequential class which implements TaskContainer, ala MacroDef. However, the IsolateFailure class' execute method would catch any BuildException, and not rethrow it. This would isolate tasks following the task from the failure, and allow them to continue executing. would also accept an optional element which, like , holds nested tasks, but these would only be executed if a BuildException was caught. This would accomodate the requirement for special processing in the event of a failure. would take an optional errorproperty="propertname" parameter, which would identify the name of a property which should be set with the message from the BuildException before executing the tasks nested within the . I'm looking for feedback on this idea before I start work on it... -------------------------------------------------------- David S. Johnson "Oh scholar, if your scholarship benefits not Mankind, you deserve not admiration but contempt." -- Kahlil Gibran