it before Class.forName(). AFAIK nobody sets it right now. The 'only' system property is checked. I'll wait for the gump runs to see if anything breaks and revert the "lazy task creation" if it does. PR: Obtained from: Submitted by: Reviewed by: git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/core/trunk@273622 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68master