The ant task classes in package com.arjuna.orbportability.common.ant (and config file idl-compiler-definitions.xml) used to be used for compiling IDL stubs in the main build. However we have since moved over to maven and now they are only used in the qa testsuite so it would be cleaner if we moved them into the qa test suite directory.

Since the classes are public and we'd need to deprecate first I have marked the JIRA as optional (we may decide the effort involved as not being worthwhile).

We also have build-anttasks.xml and orbspecific.xml which I don't think are used at all.