diff --git a/srcpkgs/apache-ant-doc b/srcpkgs/apache-ant-doc
new file mode 120000
index 00000000000..57d8521e069
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apache-ant-doc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+apache-ant
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/apache-ant/INSTALL b/srcpkgs/apache-ant/INSTALL
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e1927fd9823
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apache-ant/INSTALL
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#
+# This script will advise the user to re-login to have JRE included
+# in PATH
+#
+case "${ACTION}" in
+pre)
+    ;;
+post)
+    cat << _EOF
+=====================================================================
+
+- Please re-login to include Apache Ant in your PATH or re-source
+  /etc/profile:
+
+	$ source /etc/profile
+
+=====================================================================
+_EOF
+    ;;
+esac
+
diff --git a/srcpkgs/apache-ant/files/apache-ant.sh b/srcpkgs/apache-ant/files/apache-ant.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1ad141cedba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apache-ant/files/apache-ant.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+export PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/apache-ant/bin
+export ANT_HOME=${ANT_HOME:-/usr/share/apache-ant}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/apache-ant/template b/srcpkgs/apache-ant/template
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e505b5da0b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/apache-ant/template
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# Template file for 'apache-ant'
+pkgname="apache-ant"
+version="1.9.3"
+revision=1
+short_desc="Java library and command-line tool that help building software"
+maintainer="Enno Boland <eb@s01.de>"
+license="Apache License"
+homepage="http://ant.apache.org"
+distfiles="http://mirror.dkd.de/apache/ant/source/apache-ant-${version}-src.tar.bz2"
+checksum="eb9306e8b8322bb09b78cc3d8e288398f9cb657d76ffc61ee3fb175e786e8365"
+hostmakedepends="jdk"
+depends="jre"
+noarch="yes"
+_prefix=usr/share/apache-ant
+
+
+do_configure() {
+	# Disable tests
+	sed -i 's/jars,test-jar/jars/' build.xml
+}
+
+do_build() {
+	JAVA_HOME=/usr/share/java ./build.sh -Ddist.dir=$DESTDIR/$_prefix jars
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	JAVA_HOME=/usr/share/java ./build.sh -Ddist.dir=$DESTDIR/$_prefix dist
+
+	vinstall ${FILESDIR}/apache-ant.sh 644 etc/profile.d
+}
+
+apache-ant-doc_package() {
+        short_desc+=" - documentation"
+        depends="${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
+	noarch="yes"
+        pkg_install() {
+                vmove $_prefix/manual
+        }
+}