diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index f58a4b19e7..9d989acfcb 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -75,19 +75,19 @@ under the License.
   <property name="main.src.test" location="src/testcases"/>
   <property name="main.documentation" value="src/documentation"/>
   <property name="main.output.dir" location="build/classes"/>
-  <property name="main14.output.dir" location="build/classes-jdk14"/>
   <property name="main.output.test.dir" location="build/test-classes"/>
   <property name="main.lib" location="lib"/>
   <property name="ooxml.lib" location="ooxml-lib"/>
   <property name="main.reports.test" location="build/test-results"/>
-  <property name="main.jar1.dir" location="${main.lib}/commons-logging-1.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="main.jar1.url" value="${repository}/commons-logging/jars/commons-logging-1.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="main.jar2.dir" location="${main.lib}/log4j-1.2.13.jar"/>
-  <property name="main.jar2.url" value="${repository}/log4j/jars/log4j-1.2.13.jar"/>
-  <property name="main.testokfile" location="build/main-testokfile.txt"/>
 
-  <property name="junit.jar1.dir" location="${main.lib}/junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="junit.jar1.url" value="${repository}/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="main.commons-logging.jar" location="${main.lib}/commons-logging-1.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="main.commons-logging.url" value="${repository}/commons-logging/jars/commons-logging-1.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="main.log4j.jar" location="${main.lib}/log4j-1.2.13.jar"/>
+  <property name="main.log4j.url" value="${repository}/log4j/jars/log4j-1.2.13.jar"/>
+  <property name="main.junit.jar" location="${main.lib}/junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="main.junit.url" value="${repository}/junit/jars/junit-3.8.1.jar"/>
+
+  <property name="main.testokfile" location="build/main-testokfile.txt"/>
 
   <!-- Scratchpad: -->
   <property name="scratchpad.resource1.dir" value="src/resources/scratchpad"/>
@@ -113,7 +113,6 @@ under the License.
   <property name="examples.output.dir" location="build/examples-classes"/>
 
   <!-- Common interfaces for ole2 and ooxml classes -->
-  <property name="interfaces.jdk14.src" location="src/ooxml/interfaces-jdk14"/>
   <property name="interfaces.jdk15.src" location="src/ooxml/interfaces-jdk15"/>
 
   <!-- Experimental OOXML support: -->
@@ -124,19 +123,21 @@ under the License.
   <property name="ooxml.output.test.dir" location="build/ooxml-test-classes"/>
   <property name="ooxml.testokfile" location="build/ooxml-testokfile.txt"/>
 
-  <property name="ooxml.jar1.dir" location="${ooxml.lib}/dom4j-1.6.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar1.url" value="${repository}/dom4j/jars/dom4j-1.6.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar2.dir" location="${ooxml.lib}/jaxen-1.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar2.url" value="${repository}/jaxen/jars/jaxen-1.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar3.dir" location="${ooxml.lib}/xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar3.url" value="${repository}/xerces/jars/xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar4.dir" location="${ooxml.lib}/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar4.url" value="${repository}/org.apache.xmlbeans/jars/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar5.dir" location="${ooxml.lib}/jsr173_1.0_api.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar5.url" value="${repository}/xmlbeans/jars/jsr173_1.0_api.jar"/>
-  <!-- No official release of openxml4j yet -->
-  <property name="ooxml.jar6.dir" location="${ooxml.lib}/openxml4j-bin-beta-080728.jar"/>
-  <property name="ooxml.jar6.url" value="http://people.apache.org/~nick/openxml4j-bin-beta-080728.jar"/>
+  <!-- The following jars are downloaded by the fetch-ooxml-jars task --> 
+  <property name="ooxml.openxml4j.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/openxml4j-1.0-beta.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.openxml4j.url" value="http://people.apache.org/~nick/openxml4j-bin-beta-080728.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.dom4j.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/dom4j-1.6.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.dom4j.url" value="${repository}/dom4j/jars/dom4j-1.6.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.jaxen.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/jaxen-1.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.jaxen.url" value="${repository}/jaxen/jars/jaxen-1.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.xerces.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.xerces.url" value="${repository}/xerces/jars/xercesImpl-2.8.1.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.xmlbeans.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.xmlbeans.url" value="${repository}/org.apache.xmlbeans/jars/xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.jsr173.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/jsr173_1.0_api.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.jsr173.url" value="${repository}/xmlbeans/jars/jsr173_1.0_api.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.schemas.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/ooxml-schemas-1.0.jar"/>
+  <property name="ooxml.schemas.url" value="${repository}/org.apache.poi/jars/ooxml-schemas-1.0.jar"/>
 
   <!-- See http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-376.htm -->
   <!-- "Copy these file(s), free of charge" -->
@@ -145,9 +146,6 @@ under the License.
   <property name="ooxml.xsds.url" value="http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Office%20Open%20XML%20Part%204%20(DOCX).zip" />
   <property name="ooxml.xsds.jar" location="${ooxml.lib}/ooxml-schemas.jar"/>
 
-  <!--
-   YK: OOXML requires two dependencies that are not in the Maven repository. 
-  -->
   <property name="maven.ooxml.xsds.version.id" value="1.0"/>
   <property name="maven.ooxml.xsds.jar" value="ooxml-schemas-${maven.ooxml.xsds.version.id}.jar"/>
   <property name="maven.openxml4j.version.id" value="1.0-beta"/>
@@ -173,22 +171,11 @@ under the License.
     description="JDK version of source code"/>
   <property name="jdk.version.class" value="1.5"
     description="JDK version of generated class files"/>  
-  <property name="jdk14.version.source" value="1.3"
-    description="JDK version of source code, when built on JDK 1.4"/>
-  <property name="jdk14.version.class" value="1.3"
-    description="JDK version of generated class files, when built on JDK 1.4"/>  
- 
 
-	<!-- normally use the jdk 1.5 stuff -->
     <path id="main.classpath">
-        <pathelement location="${main.jar1.dir}"/>
-        <pathelement location="${main.jar2.dir}"/>
-        <pathelement location="${main.resource1.dir}"/>
-    </path>
-
-    <path id="main14.classpath">
-        <pathelement location="${main.jar1.dir}"/>
-        <pathelement location="${main.jar2.dir}"/>
+        <fileset dir="${main.lib}"> 
+           <include name="*.jar"/> 
+        </fileset> 
         <pathelement location="${main.resource1.dir}"/>
     </path>
 
@@ -285,7 +272,7 @@ under the License.
        </clover-report>
     </target>
 
-    <target name="init" depends="check-jars,fetch-jars">
+    <target name="init" depends="fetch-jars,fetch-ooxml-jars">
 
         <tstamp>
           <format property="tstamp.year" pattern="yyyy"/>
@@ -297,7 +284,6 @@ under the License.
         <mkdir dir="build"/>
         <mkdir dir="build/non-ant-classes"/>
         <mkdir dir="${main.output.dir}"/>
-        <mkdir dir="${main14.output.dir}"/>
         <mkdir dir="${scratchpad.output.dir}"/>
         <mkdir dir="${contrib.output.dir}"/>
         <mkdir dir="${examples.output.dir}"/>
@@ -334,40 +320,92 @@ under the License.
         <delete dir="build"/>
     </target>
 
+
+    <target name="testexist">
+      <echo message="Testing  for ${destfile}" level="debug"/>
+      <available file="${destfile}" property="exist"/>
+    </target>
+    <target name="downloadfile" unless="exist" depends="testexist">
+      <get src="${sourcefile}" dest="${destfile}" />
+    </target>
+
     <target name="check-jars">
         <condition property="jars.present">
             <or>
                 <and>
-                    <available file="${main.jar1.dir}"/>
-                    <available file="${main.jar2.dir}"/>
-                    <available file="${junit.jar1.dir}"/>
-                    <available file="${ooxml.jar1.dir}"/>
-                    <available file="${ooxml.jar2.dir}"/>
-                    <available file="${ooxml.jar3.dir}"/>
-                    <available file="${ooxml.jar4.dir}"/>
-                    <available file="${ooxml.jar5.dir}"/>
-                    <available file="${ooxml.jar6.dir}"/>
+                    <available file="${main.commons-logging.jar}"/>
+                    <available file="${main.log4j.jar}"/>
+                    <available file="${main.junit.jar}"/>
                 </and>
                 <isset property="disconnected"/>
             </or>
         </condition>
     </target>
 
-    <target name="fetch-jars" unless="jars.present"
-     description="Fetches needed JAR files from the Internet">
-        <get src="${main.jar1.url}" dest="${main.jar1.dir}"/>
-        <get src="${main.jar2.url}" dest="${main.jar2.dir}"/>
-        <get src="${junit.jar1.url}" dest="${junit.jar1.dir}"/>
-
-        <get src="${ooxml.jar1.url}" dest="${ooxml.jar1.dir}"/>
-        <get src="${ooxml.jar2.url}" dest="${ooxml.jar2.dir}"/>
-        <get src="${ooxml.jar3.url}" dest="${ooxml.jar3.dir}"/>
-        <get src="${ooxml.jar4.url}" dest="${ooxml.jar4.dir}"/>
-        <get src="${ooxml.jar5.url}" dest="${ooxml.jar5.dir}"/>
-        <get src="${ooxml.jar6.url}" dest="${ooxml.jar6.dir}"/>
+    <target name="fetch-jars" depends="check-jars" unless="jars.present"
+      description="Fetches needed JAR files from the Internet">
+        <antcall target="downloadfile">
+          <param name="sourcefile" value="${main.commons-logging.url}"/>
+          <param name="destfile" value="${main.commons-logging.jar}"/>
+        </antcall>
+        <antcall target="downloadfile">
+          <param name="sourcefile" value="${main.log4j.url}"/>
+          <param name="destfile" value="${main.log4j.jar}"/>
+        </antcall>
+        <antcall target="downloadfile">
+          <param name="sourcefile" value="${{main.junit.url}"/>
+          <param name="destfile" value="${{main.junit.jar}"/>
+        </antcall>
     </target>
 
-	<target name="check-ooxml-xsds">
+    <target name="check-ooxml-jars">
+        <condition property="ooxml.jars.present">
+            <or>
+                <and>
+                    <available file="${ooxml.dom4j.jar}"/>
+                    <available file="${ooxml.jaxen.jar}"/>
+                    <available file="${ooxml.xerces.jar}"/>
+                    <available file="${ooxml.xmlbeans.jar}"/>
+                    <available file="${ooxml.jsr173.jar}"/>
+                    <available file="${ooxml.schemas.jar}"/>
+                    <available file="${ooxml.openxml4j.jar}"/>
+                </and>
+                <isset property="disconnected"/>
+            </or>
+        </condition>
+    </target>
+    <target name="fetch-ooxml-jars" depends="check-ooxml-jars" unless="ooxml.jars.present">
+      <antcall target="downloadfile">
+        <param name="sourcefile" value="${ooxml.dom4j.url}"/>
+        <param name="destfile" value="${ooxml.dom4j.jar}"/>
+      </antcall>
+      <antcall target="downloadfile">
+        <param name="sourcefile" value="${ooxml.jaxen.url}"/>
+        <param name="destfile" value="${ooxml.jaxen.jar}"/>
+      </antcall>
+      <antcall target="downloadfile">
+        <param name="sourcefile" value="${ooxml.xerces.url}"/>
+        <param name="destfile" value="${ooxml.xerces.jar}"/>
+      </antcall>
+      <antcall target="downloadfile">
+        <param name="sourcefile" value="${ooxml.xmlbeans.url}"/>
+        <param name="destfile" value="${ooxml.xmlbeans.jar}"/>
+      </antcall>
+      <antcall target="downloadfile">
+        <param name="sourcefile" value="${ooxml.jsr173.url}"/>
+        <param name="destfile" value="${ooxml.jsr173.jar}"/>
+      </antcall>
+      <antcall target="downloadfile">
+        <param name="sourcefile" value="${ooxml.schemas.url}"/>
+        <param name="destfile" value="${ooxml.schemas.jar}"/>
+      </antcall>
+      <antcall target="downloadfile">
+        <param name="sourcefile" value="${ooxml.openxml4j.url}"/>
+        <param name="destfile" value="${ooxml.openxml4j.jar}"/>
+      </antcall>
+    </target>
+
+ 	  <target name="check-ooxml-xsds">
         <condition property="ooxml-xsds.present">
             <or>
                 <and>
@@ -397,7 +435,7 @@ under the License.
         </condition>
 	</target>
 	<target name="compile-ooxml-xsds" unless="ooxml-compiled-xsds.present"
-	 depends="check-jars,fetch-jars,check-ooxml-xsds,fetch-ooxml-xsds,check-compiled-ooxml-xsds"
+	 depends="check-jars,fetch-jars"
 	 description="Unpacks the OOXML xsd files, and compiles them into XmlBeans">
 		<taskdef name="xmlbean"
 			classname="org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.tool.XMLBean"
@@ -445,18 +483,6 @@ under the License.
     </javac>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="compile-main-14" depends="fail-unless-xslt-is-available">
-    <copy todir="${main14.output.dir}">
-      <fileset dir="${main.resource1.dir}"/>
-    </copy>
-    <javac target="${jdk14.version.class}" source="${jdk14.version.source}"
-      failonerror="true" destdir="${main14.output.dir}" debug="on" fork="yes">
-      <src path="${main.src}" />
-      <src path="${interfaces.jdk14.src}" />
-      <classpath refid="main.classpath"/>
-    </javac>
-  </target>
-
   <target name="compile-scratchpad" depends="init,compile-main">
     <javac target="${jdk.version.class}" source="${jdk.version.source}"
       failonerror="true" destdir="${scratchpad.output.dir}" debug="on"
@@ -519,7 +545,7 @@ under the License.
     </javac>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="compile-ooxml" depends="init, check-ooxml-xsds, fetch-ooxml-xsds, compile-ooxml-xsds, compile-main, compile-scratchpad">
+  <target name="compile-ooxml" depends="init, compile-main, compile-scratchpad">
 	<!-- openxml4j requires java 1.5, so so must we, for now -->
     <javac target="1.5" source="1.5"
       destdir="${ooxml.output.dir}" debug="on" srcdir="${ooxml.src}">
@@ -556,10 +582,6 @@ under the License.
     <javac target="${jdk.version.class}" source="${jdk.version.source}"
       failonerror="true" destdir="${main.output.dir}" debug="on" fork="yes"
       srcdir="${main.output.dir}" />
-    <javac target="${jdk14.version.class}" source="${jdk14.version.source}"
-      failonerror="true" destdir="${main14.output.dir}" debug="on" fork="yes"
-      srcdir="${main.output.dir}" />
-
 	<!-- Tidy up -->
 	<delete file="${version.java}" />
   </target>
@@ -1000,7 +1022,7 @@ FORREST_HOME environment variable!</echo>
       <packageset dir="${contrib.src}" defaultexcludes="yes">
         <include name="org/apache/poi/**"/>
       </packageset>
-      <packageset dir="${ooxml.src}" defaultexcludes="yes">
+      <packageset dir="${examples.src}" defaultexcludes="yes">
         <include name="org/apache/poi/**"/>
       </packageset>
 
@@ -1241,22 +1263,6 @@ FORREST_HOME environment variable!</echo>
 		</copy>
 	</target>
 
-  <target name="jar-14" depends="compile-main-14, compile-version" description="Creates the jdk 1.4 only jar file">
-        <jar destfile="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-jdk14-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar">
-			<fileset dir="${main14.output.dir}" />
-			<fileset dir="legal/" />
-            <manifest>
-                <attribute name="Built-By" value="${user.name}"/>
-                <attribute name="Specification-Title" value="Apache POI"/>
-                <attribute name="Specification-Version" value="${version.id}-${DSTAMP}"/>
-                <attribute name="Specification-Vendor" value="Apache"/>
-                <attribute name="Implementation-Title" value="Apache POI for JDK 1.3/1.4"/>
-                <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="${version.id}-${DSTAMP}"/>
-                <attribute name="Implementation-Vendor" value="Apache"/>
-            </manifest>        
-        </jar>
-  </target>
-
   <target name="jar" depends="compile, compile-version, jar-ooxml" description="Creates jar files for distribution">
         <jar destfile="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar">
 			<fileset dir="${main.output.dir}" />
@@ -1327,7 +1333,6 @@ FORREST_HOME environment variable!</echo>
       </zipfileset>
       <zipfileset dir="${build.site}" prefix="${zipdir}/docs"/>
       <zipfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
-      <zipfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-jdk14-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
       <zipfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-contrib-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
       <zipfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-scratchpad-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
       <zipfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-ooxml-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
@@ -1358,7 +1363,6 @@ FORREST_HOME environment variable!</echo>
       </tarfileset>
       <tarfileset dir="${build.site}" prefix="${zipdir}/docs"/>
       <tarfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
-      <tarfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-jdk14-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
       <tarfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-contrib-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
       <tarfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-scratchpad-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
       <tarfileset file="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-ooxml-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar" prefix="${zipdir}" />
@@ -1399,9 +1403,6 @@ FORREST_HOME environment variable!</echo>
     <antstructure output="ant.dtd"/>
   </target>
 
-
-
-
   <!-- Abort the build if JUnit is missing. -->
   <target name="fail-unless-junit-is-available" depends="init">
     <condition property="isAvailable.junit">