Flesh out readme and testing putback notifications

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-READ ME for jakarta-ant
+README file for the jakarta-ant workspace
+-----------------------------------------------------------------
+$Id$
+=================================================================
+
+This is the workspace for Ant, a Java based build tool.
+
+TODO List:
+
+
+  * Improve documentation of how to use ant, how tasks are
+    constructed, etc. 
+
+  * Improve error reporting on BuildException catches. Error should
+    state which task and which target was active at the time the
+    BuildException was popped.
+
+  * Improve error reporting on XML parse. Currently if the build.xml
+    file is malformed we get some sort of odd SAX exception that could
+    be better put.
+
+  * Provide an AbstractFileCompareTask class with prebuilt "srcfile"
+    and "destfile" setter methods and whose execute method calls a
+    "updateNeeded" method.
+
+  * CVS task to checkout a cvs tree from a particular server into a
+    given location. 
+
+  * Javadoc task -- ability to dance between 1.1 and 1.2 javadoc as
+    well as using other doclets like cocoons? 
+
+  * Transform task -- XSLT 
+
+  * Output logs in XML -- this would be a global option of the project
+    (log location, verboseness, etc)
+
+  * Javac improvements -- support the "modern" 1.3 compiler
+
+  * Investigate some sort of command line "execute an instance of a
+    task with these parameters" entry point. Maybe a
+    `org.apache.ant.TaskMain task org.foo.BarTask attrib1=foo
+    attrib2=bar` type entry point?
+
+  * Investigate some sort of "touch" functionality. Not sure how this
+    could be done in a portable way -- maybe append 0 bytes to a file
+    as a quick hack?
+
+  * GUI front end -- examine tasks, add task properties, etc. Also,
+    one button push build of a particular target.
+
+  * Test harness. All software projects should have an automatable
+    test suite. Ant is no exception to this rule.
+