Would someone on Windows please do the following and attach the two outputs to the new issue: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-889
This causes Ant to be verbose. Not the verbosity setting of Catalog Entity Resolver that i was looking for, but it should give some info about what ant is doing. ------------- cd my-new-directory forrest seed forrest -v validate-xdocs ------------- Now upgrade the Resolver ... mv tools/ant/lib/xml-commons-resolver-1.1.jar /tmp cp lib/core/xml-commons-resolver-1.2-dev-r395116.jar tools/ant/lib Then do the 'forrest -v validate-xdocs' again. -David