diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 78278e795..a1db6339c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ Amongst other, the following people contributed to ant:
 
 Aleksandr Ishutin
 Andreas Ames
+Andreas Mross
 Andrew Everitt
 Anil K. Vijendran
 Anli Shundi
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Task.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Task.java
index 8105c26df..b6c4500ff 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Task.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Task.java
@@ -335,6 +335,22 @@ public abstract class Task extends ProjectComponent {
         log(msg, Project.MSG_INFO);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Logs a message with the given priority. This delegates
+     * the actual logging to the project.
+     *
+     * @param msg The message to be logged. Should not be <code>null</code>.
+     * @param msgLevel The message priority at which this message is to
+     *                 be logged.
+     */
+    public void log(String msg, int msgLevel) {
+        if (getProject() != null) {
+            getProject().log(this, msg, msgLevel);
+        } else {
+            super.log(msg, msgLevel);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Performs this task if it's still valid, or gets a replacement
      * version and performs that otherwise.