Building and deploying the example with Ant and Tomcat: 1) download tomcat 4.1.x (we need the catalina-ant.jar file from 4.1) 2) download and install tomcat 4.0.x (MyFaces only runs with 4.0 yet) 2.a) If you have not already you need to add a user that has the manager and admin roles 3) add the catalina-ant.jar file from Tomcat 4.1 to your ant classpath 3.a) You can copy catalina-ant.jar to your ant/lib directory or you can modify the ant script to include the jar. 3.b) IntelliJ-users: add it as "Additional Classpath" in the "Build File Properties". 4) Copy build.properties.sample file to build.properties and set the values 5) Execute the install target to have the examples installed Bill Dudney [bdudney@mac.com] (modified by M.Geiler)