>> Also requiring a net connection to do every build is a 
>really bad idea
>> IMO - there are plenty of valid reasons why folks might want 
>to do work
>> without the network.  This also goes for being 
>cross-platform: we need
>> to support users on Windoze as well as the unixes of the world so I
>> think it is important to include .bat files in most cases 
>where we have
>> .sh scripts for bootstraps, etc.  (But that's a different issue...)
>What about having each needed jar as a property, and have a 
>setup task check 
>if those file are effectively present, and if not, downloading 
>them for a 
>known location ?

+1, that's how for example Tomcat 3.3 and 4.x allow you to 
build them, defininig regexp, javamail, jndi, jta jar locations....

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