diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/AntClassLoader.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/AntClassLoader.java
index 6622a850e..6b86d49ba 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/AntClassLoader.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/AntClassLoader.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.LoaderUtils;
  */
 public class AntClassLoader extends ClassLoader implements SubBuildListener {
 
-    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * An enumeration of all resources of a given name found within the
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
index 9dd3c7b60..cf0789d5b 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/DirectoryScanner.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -165,6 +165,9 @@ public class DirectoryScanner
         "**/.DS_Store"
     };
 
+    /** Helper. */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Patterns which should be excluded by default.
      *
@@ -241,9 +244,6 @@ public class DirectoryScanner
      */
     private boolean followSymlinks = true;
 
-    /** Helper. */
-    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
     /** Whether or not everything tested so far has been included. */
     protected boolean everythingIncluded = true;
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Location.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Location.java
index 6b1a6ea80..d0036a3bc 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Location.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Location.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000,2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ public class Location implements Serializable {
     /** Location to use when one is needed but no information is available */
     public static final Location UNKNOWN_LOCATION = new Location();
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Creates an "unknown" location.
      */
@@ -84,7 +86,7 @@ public class Location implements Serializable {
      */
     public Location(String fileName, int lineNumber, int columnNumber) {
         if (fileName != null && fileName.startsWith("file:")) {
-            this.fileName = FileUtils.newFileUtils().fromURI(fileName);
+            this.fileName = FILE_UTILS.fromURI(fileName);
         } else {
             this.fileName = fileName;
         }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java
index 326793391..680603e0b 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ public class Project {
     /** Default filter end token. */
     public static final String TOKEN_END = FilterSet.DEFAULT_TOKEN_END;
 
+    /** Instance of a utility class to use for file operations. */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /** Name of this project. */
     private String name;
     /** Description for this project (if any). */
@@ -185,6 +188,11 @@ public class Project {
      */
     private boolean keepGoingMode = false;
 
+    /**
+     * Flag which catches Listeners which try to use System.out or System.err
+     */
+    private boolean loggingMessage = false;
+
     /**
      * Sets the input handler
      *
@@ -227,19 +235,10 @@ public class Project {
         return inputHandler;
     }
 
-    /** Instance of a utility class to use for file operations. */
-    private FileUtils fileUtils;
-
-    /**
-     * Flag which catches Listeners which try to use System.out or System.err
-     */
-    private boolean loggingMessage = false;
-
     /**
      * Creates a new Ant project.
      */
     public Project() {
-        fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         inputHandler = new DefaultInputHandler();
     }
 
@@ -731,7 +730,7 @@ public class Project {
      *                           isn't a directory
      */
     public void setBaseDir(File baseDir) throws BuildException {
-        baseDir = fileUtils.normalize(baseDir.getAbsolutePath());
+        baseDir = FILE_UTILS.normalize(baseDir.getAbsolutePath());
         if (!baseDir.exists()) {
             throw new BuildException("Basedir " + baseDir.getAbsolutePath()
                 + " does not exist");
@@ -1300,7 +1299,7 @@ public class Project {
      * @deprecated
      */
     public File resolveFile(String fileName, File rootDir) {
-        return fileUtils.resolveFile(rootDir, fileName);
+        return FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(rootDir, fileName);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1316,7 +1315,7 @@ public class Project {
      *
      */
     public File resolveFile(String fileName) {
-        return fileUtils.resolveFile(baseDir, fileName);
+        return FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(baseDir, fileName);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1370,7 +1369,7 @@ public class Project {
      */
     public void copyFile(String sourceFile, String destFile)
           throws IOException {
-        fileUtils.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile);
+        FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1390,7 +1389,7 @@ public class Project {
      */
     public void copyFile(String sourceFile, String destFile, boolean filtering)
         throws IOException {
-        fileUtils.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
+        FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
             filtering ? globalFilters : null);
     }
 
@@ -1414,7 +1413,7 @@ public class Project {
      */
     public void copyFile(String sourceFile, String destFile, boolean filtering,
                          boolean overwrite) throws IOException {
-        fileUtils.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
+        FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
             filtering ? globalFilters : null, overwrite);
     }
 
@@ -1444,7 +1443,7 @@ public class Project {
     public void copyFile(String sourceFile, String destFile, boolean filtering,
                          boolean overwrite, boolean preserveLastModified)
         throws IOException {
-        fileUtils.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
+        FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
             filtering ? globalFilters : null, overwrite, preserveLastModified);
     }
 
@@ -1462,7 +1461,7 @@ public class Project {
      * @deprecated
      */
     public void copyFile(File sourceFile, File destFile) throws IOException {
-        fileUtils.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile);
+        FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile);
     }
 
     /**
@@ -1482,7 +1481,7 @@ public class Project {
      */
     public void copyFile(File sourceFile, File destFile, boolean filtering)
         throws IOException {
-        fileUtils.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
+        FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
             filtering ? globalFilters : null);
     }
 
@@ -1506,7 +1505,7 @@ public class Project {
      */
     public void copyFile(File sourceFile, File destFile, boolean filtering,
                          boolean overwrite) throws IOException {
-        fileUtils.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
+        FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
             filtering ? globalFilters : null, overwrite);
     }
 
@@ -1536,7 +1535,7 @@ public class Project {
     public void copyFile(File sourceFile, File destFile, boolean filtering,
                          boolean overwrite, boolean preserveLastModified)
         throws IOException {
-        fileUtils.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
+        FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceFile, destFile,
             filtering ? globalFilters : null, overwrite, preserveLastModified);
     }
 
@@ -1557,7 +1556,7 @@ public class Project {
      */
     public void setFileLastModified(File file, long time)
          throws BuildException {
-        fileUtils.setFileLastModified(file, time);
+        FILE_UTILS.setFileLastModified(file, time);
         log("Setting modification time for " + file, MSG_VERBOSE);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/helper/ProjectHelper2.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/helper/ProjectHelper2.java
index c0c79fafe..fb5ee5cc9 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/helper/ProjectHelper2.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/helper/ProjectHelper2.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ public class ProjectHelper2 extends ProjectHelper {
     /**
      * helper for path -> URI and URI -> path conversions.
      */
-    private static FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * Parse an unknown element from a url
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ public class ProjectHelper2 extends ProjectHelper {
 
         if (source instanceof File) {
             buildFile = (File) source;
-            buildFile = fu.normalize(buildFile.getAbsolutePath());
+            buildFile = FILE_UTILS.normalize(buildFile.getAbsolutePath());
             context.setBuildFile(buildFile);
             buildFileName = buildFile.toString();
 //         } else if (source instanceof InputStream ) {
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ public class ProjectHelper2 extends ProjectHelper {
 
             String uri = null;
             if (buildFile != null) {
-                uri = fu.toURI(buildFile.getAbsolutePath());
+                uri = FILE_UTILS.toURI(buildFile.getAbsolutePath());
                 inputStream = new FileInputStream(buildFile);
             } else {
                 inputStream = url.openStream();
@@ -415,16 +415,16 @@ public class ProjectHelper2 extends ProjectHelper {
                 + systemId, Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
 
             if (systemId.startsWith("file:")) {
-                String path = fu.fromURI(systemId);
+                String path = FILE_UTILS.fromURI(systemId);
 
                 File file = new File(path);
                 if (!file.isAbsolute()) {
-                    file = fu.resolveFile(context.getBuildFileParent(), path);
+                    file = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(context.getBuildFileParent(), path);
                 }
                 try {
                     InputSource inputSource =
                             new InputSource(new FileInputStream(file));
-                    inputSource.setSystemId(fu.toURI(file.getAbsolutePath()));
+                    inputSource.setSystemId(FILE_UTILS.toURI(file.getAbsolutePath()));
                     return inputSource;
                 } catch (FileNotFoundException fne) {
                     context.getProject().log(file.getAbsolutePath()
@@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ public class ProjectHelper2 extends ProjectHelper {
                     if ((new File(baseDir)).isAbsolute()) {
                         project.setBasedir(baseDir);
                     } else {
-                        project.setBaseDir(fu.resolveFile(
+                        project.setBaseDir(FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(
                                                context.getBuildFileParent(), baseDir));
                     }
                 }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/helper/ProjectHelperImpl.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/helper/ProjectHelperImpl.java
index 730418d37..19cc2fac4 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/helper/ProjectHelperImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/helper/ProjectHelperImpl.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ import org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderAdapter;
  */
 public class ProjectHelperImpl extends ProjectHelper {
 
+    /**
+     * helper for path -> URI and URI -> path conversions.
+     */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * SAX 1 style parser used to parse the given file. This may
      * in fact be a SAX 2 XMLReader wrapped in an XMLReaderAdapter.
@@ -78,10 +83,6 @@ public class ProjectHelperImpl extends ProjectHelper {
      * been placed outside of targets.</p>
      */
     private Target implicitTarget = new Target();
-    /**
-     * helper for path -> URI and URI -> path conversions.
-     */
-    private static FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * default constructor
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ public class ProjectHelperImpl extends ProjectHelper {
             }
 
 
-            String uri = fu.toURI(bFile.getAbsolutePath());
+            String uri = FILE_UTILS.toURI(bFile.getAbsolutePath());
             inputStream = new FileInputStream(bFile);
             inputSource = new InputSource(inputStream);
             inputSource.setSystemId(uri);
@@ -296,15 +297,15 @@ public class ProjectHelperImpl extends ProjectHelper {
             helperImpl.project.log("resolving systemId: " + systemId, Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
 
             if (systemId.startsWith("file:")) {
-                String path = fu.fromURI(systemId);
+                String path = FILE_UTILS.fromURI(systemId);
 
                 File file = new File(path);
                 if (!file.isAbsolute()) {
-                    file = fu.resolveFile(helperImpl.buildFileParent, path);
+                    file = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(helperImpl.buildFileParent, path);
                 }
                 try {
                     InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(new FileInputStream(file));
-                    inputSource.setSystemId(fu.toURI(file.getAbsolutePath()));
+                    inputSource.setSystemId(FILE_UTILS.toURI(file.getAbsolutePath()));
                     return inputSource;
                 } catch (FileNotFoundException fne) {
                     helperImpl.project.log(file.getAbsolutePath() + " could not be found",
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/loader/AntClassLoader2.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/loader/AntClassLoader2.java
index 2a7e9120a..30951f84a 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/loader/AntClassLoader2.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/loader/AntClassLoader2.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class AntClassLoader2 extends AntClassLoader {
     /** Instance of a utility class to use for file operations. */
-    private FileUtils fileUtils;
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /** Static map of jar file/time to manifiest class-path entries */
     private static Map pathMap = Collections.synchronizedMap(new HashMap());
@@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ public class AntClassLoader2 extends AntClassLoader {
      * Constructor
      */
     public AntClassLoader2() {
-        fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -279,7 +278,7 @@ public class AntClassLoader2 extends AntClassLoader {
         }
 
         if (!"".equals(classpath)) {
-            URL baseURL = fileUtils.getFileURL(pathComponent);
+            URL baseURL = FILE_UTILS.getFileURL(pathComponent);
             StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(classpath);
             while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
                 String classpathElement = st.nextToken();
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java
index e594969dc..f98594f64 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ant.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ public class Ant extends Task {
     /** Target Executor */
     private static final Executor EXECUTOR = new SingleCheckExecutor();
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /** the basedir where is executed the build file */
     private File dir = null;
 
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ public class Ant extends Task {
         if (output != null) {
             File outfile = null;
             if (dir != null) {
-                outfile = FileUtils.newFileUtils().resolveFile(dir, output);
+                outfile = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(dir, output);
             } else {
                 outfile = getProject().resolveFile(output);
             }
@@ -305,7 +307,7 @@ public class Ant extends Task {
                 antFile = "build.xml";
             }
 
-            File file = FileUtils.newFileUtils().resolveFile(dir, antFile);
+            File file = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(dir, antFile);
             antFile = file.getAbsolutePath();
 
             log("calling target(s) "
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java
index d6849494f..02a77dc17 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Available.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils;
  * @ant.task category="control"
  */
 public class Available extends Task implements Condition {
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     private String property;
     private String classname;
@@ -143,8 +144,7 @@ public class Available extends Task implements Condition {
      * @param file the name of the file which is required.
      */
     public void setFile(File file) {
-        this.file = FileUtils.newFileUtils()
-            .removeLeadingPath(getProject().getBaseDir(), file);
+        this.file = FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(getProject().getBaseDir(), file);
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BuildNumber.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BuildNumber.java
index d4e9c2dad..46f8c110e 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BuildNumber.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BuildNumber.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ public class BuildNumber
     /** The default filename to use if no file specified.  */
     private static final String DEFAULT_FILENAME = DEFAULT_PROPERTY_NAME;
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /** The File in which the build number is stored.  */
     private File myFile;
 
@@ -177,7 +179,7 @@ public class BuildNumber
 
         if (!myFile.exists()) {
             try {
-                FileUtils.newFileUtils().createNewFile(myFile);
+                FILE_UTILS.createNewFile(myFile);
             } catch (final IOException ioe) {
                 final String message =
                     myFile + " doesn't exist and new file can't be created.";
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Concat.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Concat.java
index 7a0d1ce9b..0133b8aad 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Concat.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Concat.java
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ public class Concat extends Task {
     // The size of buffers to be used
     private static final int BUFFER_SIZE = 8192;
 
+    private static final FileUtils     FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
     // Attributes.
 
     /**
@@ -125,9 +126,6 @@ public class Concat extends Task {
     /** internal variable - used to collect the source files from sources */
     private Vector        sourceFiles = new Vector();
 
-    /** 1.1 utilities and copy utilities */
-    private static FileUtils     fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
     // Attribute setters.
 
     /**
@@ -465,7 +463,7 @@ public class Concat extends Task {
                 continue;
             }
             if (destinationFile != null
-                && fileUtils.fileNameEquals(destinationFile, file)) {
+                && FILE_UTILS.fileNameEquals(destinationFile, file)) {
                 throw new BuildException("Input file \""
                                          + file + "\" "
                                          + "is the same as the output file.");
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/DependSet.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/DependSet.java
index ce5b26705..0bfc84de7 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/DependSet.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/DependSet.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import java.util.Vector;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileList;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
@@ -78,6 +77,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class DependSet extends MatchingTask {
 
+    private static final FileUtils     FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private Vector sourceFileSets  = new Vector();
     private Vector sourceFileLists = new Vector();
     private Vector targetFileSets  = new Vector();
@@ -138,7 +139,7 @@ public class DependSet extends MatchingTask {
           We have to munge the time to allow for the filesystem time
           granularity.
         */
-        now += FileUtils.getFileUtils().getFileTimestampGranularity();
+        now += FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity();
 
         //
         // Grab all the target files specified via filesets
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ear.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ear.java
index 34b4830ee..4c256db86 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ear.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Ear.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -32,10 +32,11 @@ import org.apache.tools.zip.ZipOutputStream;
  * @ant.task category="packaging"
  */
 public class Ear extends Jar {
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     private File deploymentDescriptor;
     private boolean descriptorAdded;
-    private static final FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+
 
     /**
      * Create an Ear task.
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ public class Ear extends Jar {
         // <fileset> element.
         if (vPath.equalsIgnoreCase("META-INF/application.xml"))  {
             if (deploymentDescriptor == null
-                || !fu.fileNameEquals(deploymentDescriptor, file)
+                || !FILE_UTILS.fileNameEquals(deploymentDescriptor, file)
                 || descriptorAdded) {
                 log("Warning: selected " + archiveType
                     + " files include a META-INF/application.xml which will"
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTask.java
index bbe3bd5bd..f617bedb6 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTask.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class ExecTask extends Task {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private String os;
 
     private File dir;
@@ -392,10 +394,9 @@ public class ExecTask extends Task {
             return executableFile.getAbsolutePath();
         }
 
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         // now try to resolve against the dir if given
         if (dir != null) {
-            executableFile = fileUtils.resolveFile(dir, exec);
+            executableFile = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(dir, exec);
             if (executableFile.exists()) {
                 return executableFile.getAbsolutePath();
             }
@@ -430,7 +431,7 @@ public class ExecTask extends Task {
             if (p != null) {
                 String[] dirs = p.list();
                 for (int i = 0; i < dirs.length; i++) {
-                    executableFile = fileUtils.resolveFile(new File(dirs[i]),
+                    executableFile = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(dirs[i]),
                                                            exec);
                     if (executableFile.exists()) {
                         return executableFile.getAbsolutePath();
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Execute.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Execute.java
index 0db527784..3fa0d61e9 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Execute.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Execute.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ public class Execute {
     /** Invalid exit code. **/
     public static final int INVALID = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private String[] cmdl = null;
     private String[] env = null;
     private int exitValue = INVALID;
@@ -1152,7 +1154,7 @@ public class Execute {
          */
         private File createCommandFile(String[] cmd, String[] env)
             throws IOException {
-            File script = FileUtils.newFileUtils().createTempFile("ANT", ".COM", null);
+            File script = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("ANT", ".COM", null);
             //TODO: bind the longevity of the file to the exe
             script.deleteOnExit();
             PrintWriter out = null;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Expand.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Expand.java
index a2c6a3f1c..6a99a455c 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Expand.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Expand.java
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ public class Expand extends Task {
     private String encoding = "UTF8";
     /** Error message when more that one mapper is defined */
     public static final String ERROR_MULTIPLE_MAPPERS = "Cannot define more than one mapper";
+    
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * Do the work.
@@ -88,14 +90,12 @@ public class Expand extends Task {
             throw new BuildException("Dest must be a directory.", getLocation());
         }
 
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
         if (source != null) {
             if (source.isDirectory()) {
                 throw new BuildException("Src must not be a directory."
                     + " Use nested filesets instead.", getLocation());
             } else {
-                expandFile(fileUtils, source, dest);
+                expandFile(FILE_UTILS, source, dest);
             }
         }
         if (filesets.size() > 0) {
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ public class Expand extends Task {
                 String[] files = ds.getIncludedFiles();
                 for (int i = 0; i < files.length; ++i) {
                     File file = new File(fromDir, files[i]);
-                    expandFile(fileUtils, file, dest);
+                    expandFile(FILE_UTILS, file, dest);
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
index c9077f444..c25dbc722 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
 
     private static final char CTRLZ = '\u001A';
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private int tablength = 8;
     private String spaces = "        ";
     private StringBuffer linebuf = new StringBuffer(1024);
@@ -120,8 +122,6 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
     private File srcDir;
     private File destDir = null;
 
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
     /**
      * Encoding to assume for the files
      */
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
         try {
             // Set up the output Writer
             try {
-                tmpFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("fixcrlf", "", null);
+                tmpFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("fixcrlf", "", null);
                 tmpFile.deleteOnExit();
                 Writer writer = (encoding == null) ? new FileWriter(tmpFile)
                     : new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(tmpFile),
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
             if (destFile.exists()) {
                 // Compare the destination with the temp file
                 log("destFile exists", Project.MSG_DEBUG);
-                if (!fileUtils.contentEquals(destFile, tmpFile)) {
+                if (!FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(destFile, tmpFile)) {
                     log(destFile + " is being written", Project.MSG_DEBUG);
                 } else {
                     log(destFile + " is not written, as the contents "
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
             }
 
             if (destIsWrong) {
-                fileUtils.rename(tmpFile, destFile);
+                FILE_UTILS.rename(tmpFile, destFile);
                 tmpFile = null;
             }
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Get.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Get.java
index 9508c9336..e0c1ef721 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Get.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Get.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ import java.util.Date;
  * @ant.task category="network"
  */
 public class Get extends Task {
+
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private URL source; // required
     private File dest; // required
     private boolean verbose = false;
@@ -243,8 +246,7 @@ public class Get extends Task {
                         : ""), logLevel);
             }
             if (remoteTimestamp != 0) {
-                FileUtils.newFileUtils()
-                        .setFileLastModified(dest, remoteTimestamp);
+                FILE_UTILS.setFileLastModified(dest, remoteTimestamp);
             }
         }
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ImportTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ImportTask.java
index 59c6f6807..356c491db 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ImportTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ImportTask.java
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ import java.util.Vector;
 public class ImportTask extends Task {
     private String file;
     private boolean optional;
-    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * sets the optional attribute
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javadoc.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javadoc.java
index bf9e416df..68e445c03 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javadoc.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javadoc.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -344,6 +344,8 @@ public class Javadoc extends Task {
         }
     }
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /** The command line built to execute Javadoc. */
     private Commandline cmd = new Commandline();
 
@@ -427,7 +429,6 @@ public class Javadoc extends Task {
     private Html footer = null;
     private Html bottom = null;
     private boolean useExternalFile = false;
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
     private String source = null;
     private boolean linksource = false;
     private boolean breakiterator = false;
@@ -1709,7 +1710,7 @@ public class Javadoc extends Task {
                         if (packageListFile.exists()) {
                             try {
                                 String packageListURL =
-                                    fileUtils.getFileURL(packageListLocation)
+                                    FILE_UTILS.getFileURL(packageListLocation)
                                     .toExternalForm();
                                 toExecute.createArgument()
                                     .setValue("-linkoffline");
@@ -1858,7 +1859,7 @@ public class Javadoc extends Task {
              */
             if (useExternalFile) {
                 if (tmpList == null) {
-                    tmpList = fileUtils.createTempFile("javadoc", "", null);
+                    tmpList = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("javadoc", "", null);
                     tmpList.deleteOnExit();
                     toExecute.createArgument()
                         .setValue("@" + tmpList.getAbsolutePath());
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Length.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Length.java
index ceec0f06b..59b86d319 100755
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Length.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Length.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Vector;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Iterator;
@@ -30,7 +29,6 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.Dispatchable;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.EnumeratedAttribute;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
@@ -45,6 +43,7 @@ public class Length extends Task {
     private static final String ALL = "all";
     private static final String EACH = "each";
     private static final String STRING = "string";
+
     private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     private String property;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Rename.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Rename.java
index c4383efe4..d7c2585f5 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Rename.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Rename.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class Rename extends Task {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private File src;
     private File dest;
     private boolean replace = true;
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ public class Rename extends Task {
         }
 
         try {
-            FileUtils.newFileUtils().rename(src, dest);
+            FILE_UTILS.rename(src, dest);
         } catch (IOException e) {
             throw new BuildException("Unable to rename " + src + " to "
                 + dest, e, getLocation());
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Replace.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Replace.java
index 514dc9b4d..3d56ae842 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Replace.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Replace.java
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.StringUtils;
  */
 public class Replace extends MatchingTask {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private File src = null;
     private NestedString token = null;
     private NestedString value = new NestedString();
@@ -70,8 +72,6 @@ public class Replace extends MatchingTask {
     /** The encoding used to read and write files - if null, uses default */
     private String encoding = null;
 
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
     /**
      * An inline string to use as the replacement text.
      */
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ public class Replace extends MatchingTask {
         try {
             in = new FileInput(src);
 
-            temp = fileUtils.createTempFile("rep", ".tmp",
+            temp = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("rep", ".tmp",
                     src.getParentFile());
             out = new FileOutput(temp);
 
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ public class Replace extends MatchingTask {
 
             boolean changes = (replaceCount != repCountStart);
             if (changes) {
-                fileUtils.rename(temp, src);
+                FILE_UTILS.rename(temp, src);
                 temp = null;
             }
         } catch (IOException ioe) {
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Rmic.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Rmic.java
index e15a05d0c..cebb29bfd 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Rmic.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Rmic.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -104,8 +104,6 @@ public class Rmic extends MatchingTask {
 
     private ClassLoader loader = null;
 
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
     private FacadeTaskHelper facade;
     /** unable to verify message */
     public static final String ERROR_UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_CLASS = "Unable to verify class ";
@@ -122,6 +120,8 @@ public class Rmic extends MatchingTask {
     /** base attribute not set message */
     public static final String ERROR_BASE_NOT_SET = "base attribute must be set!";
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Constructor for Rmic.
      */
@@ -607,11 +607,11 @@ public class Rmic extends MatchingTask {
             File newFile = new File(sourceBaseFile, sourceFileName);
             try {
                 if (filtering) {
-                    fileUtils.copyFile(oldFile, newFile,
+                    FILE_UTILS.copyFile(oldFile, newFile,
                         new FilterSetCollection(getProject()
                                                 .getGlobalFilterSet()));
                 } else {
-                    fileUtils.copyFile(oldFile, newFile);
+                    FILE_UTILS.copyFile(oldFile, newFile);
                 }
                 oldFile.delete();
             } catch (IOException ioe) {
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SignJar.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SignJar.java
index ca3d87ddd..1b75dddb9 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SignJar.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/SignJar.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class SignJar extends Task {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * The name of the jar file.
      */
@@ -351,7 +353,7 @@ public class SignJar extends Task {
             if (jarFile.equals(signedjarFile)) {
               return false;
             }
-            if (FileUtils.newFileUtils().isUpToDate(jarFile, signedjarFile)) {
+            if (FILE_UTILS.isUpToDate(jarFile, signedjarFile)) {
                 return true;
             }
         } else {
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/TempFile.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/TempFile.java
index 31afc3568..7d5f9bc55 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/TempFile.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/TempFile.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 public class TempFile extends Task {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Name of property to set.
      */
@@ -115,8 +117,7 @@ public class TempFile extends Task {
         if (destDir == null) {
             destDir = getProject().resolveFile(".");
         }
-        FileUtils utils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        File tfile = utils.createTempFile(prefix, suffix, destDir);
+        File tfile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile(prefix, suffix, destDir);
         getProject().setNewProperty(property, tfile.toString());
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Touch.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Touch.java
index dc964d065..a1925fb5e 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Touch.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Touch.java
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ public class Touch extends Task {
                 DateFormat.MEDIUM, Locale.US);
         }
     };
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     private File file;
     private long millis = -1;
     private String dateTime;
     private Vector filesets = new Vector();
     private Vector filelists = new Vector();
-    private FileUtils fileUtils;
     private boolean dateTimeConfigured;
     private boolean mkdirs;
     private boolean verbose = true;
@@ -89,7 +89,6 @@ public class Touch extends Task {
      * Construct a new <code>Touch</code> task.
      */
     public Touch() {
-        fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -315,7 +314,7 @@ public class Touch extends Task {
     }
 
     private void touch(File fromDir, String filename, long defaultTimestamp) {
-        File f = fileUtils.resolveFile(fromDir, filename);
+        File f = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(fromDir, filename);
         if (fileNameMapper == null) {
             touch(f, defaultTimestamp);
         } else {
@@ -334,7 +333,7 @@ public class Touch extends Task {
             log("Creating " + file,
                 ((verbose) ? Project.MSG_INFO : Project.MSG_VERBOSE));
             try {
-                fileUtils.createNewFile(file, mkdirs);
+                FILE_UTILS.createNewFile(file, mkdirs);
             } catch (IOException ioe) {
                 throw new BuildException("Could not create " + file, ioe,
                                          getLocation());
@@ -344,7 +343,7 @@ public class Touch extends Task {
             throw new BuildException("Can not change modification date of "
                                      + "read-only file " + file);
         }
-        fileUtils.setFileLastModified(file, modTime);
+        FILE_UTILS.setFileLastModified(file, modTime);
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/War.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/War.java
index a32f9d05c..c64503635 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/War.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/War.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ public class War extends Jar {
      */
     private boolean descriptorAdded;
 
-    private static final FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     public War() {
         super();
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ public class War extends Jar {
         // by the "webxml" attribute and in a <fileset> element.
         if (vPath.equalsIgnoreCase("WEB-INF/web.xml"))  {
             if (deploymentDescriptor == null
-                || !fu.fileNameEquals(deploymentDescriptor, file)
+                || !FILE_UTILS.fileNameEquals(deploymentDescriptor, file)
                 || descriptorAdded) {
                 log("Warning: selected " + archiveType
                     + " files include a WEB-INF/web.xml which will be ignored "
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XSLTProcess.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XSLTProcess.java
index 985124c40..4949b34d5 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XSLTProcess.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XSLTProcess.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -82,9 +82,6 @@ public class XSLTProcess extends MatchingTask implements XSLTLogger {
     /** force output of target files even if they already exist */
     private boolean force = false;
 
-    /** Utilities used for file operations */
-    private FileUtils fileUtils;
-
     /** XSL output properties to be used */
     private Vector outputProperties = new Vector();
 
@@ -103,6 +100,9 @@ public class XSLTProcess extends MatchingTask implements XSLTLogger {
     private static final String XALAN_LIAISON_CLASS =
                         "org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.XalanLiaison";
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Whether to style all files in the included directories as well.
      *
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ public class XSLTProcess extends MatchingTask implements XSLTLogger {
      * Creates a new XSLTProcess Task.
      */
     public XSLTProcess() {
-        fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+        
     } //-- XSLTProcess
 
     /**
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ public class XSLTProcess extends MatchingTask implements XSLTLogger {
 
             File stylesheet = getProject().resolveFile(xslFile);
             if (!stylesheet.exists()) {
-                stylesheet = fileUtils.resolveFile(baseDir, xslFile);
+                stylesheet = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(baseDir, xslFile);
                 /*
                  * shouldn't throw out deprecation warnings before we know,
                  * the wrong version has been used.
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlProperty.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlProperty.java
index 285b4025f..2b87d693e 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlProperty.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlProperty.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ public class XmlProperty extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task {
     private boolean semanticAttributes = false;
     private boolean includeSemanticAttribute = false;
     private File rootDirectory = null;
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
     private Hashtable addedAttributes = new Hashtable();
     private XMLCatalog xmlCatalog = new XMLCatalog();
 
@@ -192,6 +191,7 @@ public class XmlProperty extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task {
     private static final String[] ATTRIBUTES = new String[] {
         ID, REF_ID, LOCATION, VALUE, PATH, PATHID
     };
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * Constructor.
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ public class XmlProperty extends org.apache.tools.ant.Task {
         if (rootDirectory == null) {
             return getProject().resolveFile(fileName);
         }
-        return fileUtils.resolveFile(rootDirectory, fileName);
+        return FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(rootDirectory, fileName);
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Zip.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Zip.java
index 649ff35b7..9a2664300 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Zip.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Zip.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ public class Zip extends MatchingTask {
     protected boolean doubleFilePass = false;
     protected boolean skipWriting = false;
 
-    private static FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * true when we are adding new files into the Zip file, as opposed
@@ -406,12 +406,12 @@ public class Zip extends MatchingTask {
 
             if (doUpdate) {
                 renamedFile =
-                    fileUtils.createTempFile("zip", ".tmp",
+                    FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("zip", ".tmp",
                                              zipFile.getParentFile());
                 renamedFile.deleteOnExit();
 
                 try {
-                    fileUtils.rename(zipFile, renamedFile);
+                    FILE_UTILS.rename(zipFile, renamedFile);
                 } catch (SecurityException e) {
                     throw new BuildException(
                         "Not allowed to rename old file ("
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ public class Zip extends MatchingTask {
 
             if (doUpdate && renamedFile != null) {
                 try {
-                    fileUtils.rename(renamedFile, zipFile);
+                    FILE_UTILS.rename(renamedFile, zipFile);
                 } catch (IOException e) {
                     msg += " (and I couldn't rename the temporary file "
                             + renamedFile.getName() + " back)";
@@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ public class Zip extends MatchingTask {
                 }
 
                 if (!resources[i].isDirectory() && dealingWithFiles) {
-                    File f = fileUtils.resolveFile(base,
+                    File f = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(base,
                                                    resources[i].getName());
                     zipFile(f, zOut, prefix + name, fileMode);
                 } else if (!resources[i].isDirectory()) {
@@ -827,7 +827,7 @@ public class Zip extends MatchingTask {
 
                 for (int j = 0; j < initialResources[i].length; j++) {
                     File resourceAsFile =
-                        fileUtils.resolveFile(base,
+                        FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(base,
                                               initialResources[i][j].getName());
                     if (resourceAsFile.equals(zipFile)) {
                         throw new BuildException("A zip file cannot include "
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers/DefaultCompilerAdapter.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers/DefaultCompilerAdapter.java
index 3f84ba880..23ce0a0e3 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers/DefaultCompilerAdapter.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers/DefaultCompilerAdapter.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
  */
 public abstract class DefaultCompilerAdapter implements CompilerAdapter {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+    
     /* jdg - TODO - all these attributes are currently protected, but they
      * should probably be private in the near future.
      */
@@ -69,7 +71,6 @@ public abstract class DefaultCompilerAdapter implements CompilerAdapter {
     protected static final String lSep = System.getProperty("line.separator");
     protected Javac attributes;
 
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * Set the Javac instance which contains the configured compilation
@@ -408,7 +409,7 @@ public abstract class DefaultCompilerAdapter implements CompilerAdapter {
                 && firstFileName >= 0) {
                 PrintWriter out = null;
                 try {
-                    tmpFile = fileUtils.createTempFile(
+                    tmpFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile(
                         "files", "", getJavac().getTempdir());
                     tmpFile.deleteOnExit();
                     out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(tmpFile));
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/FilesMatch.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/FilesMatch.java
index a87ed0a3b..7af373fb2 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/FilesMatch.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/FilesMatch.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -32,14 +32,15 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 public class FilesMatch implements Condition {
 
     /**
-     * files to compare
+     * Helper that provides the file comparison method.
      */
-    private File file1, file2;
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
-     * Helper that provides the file comparison method.
+     * files to compare
      */
-    private FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private File file1, file2;
+
 
     /**
      * Sets the File1 attribute
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ public class FilesMatch implements Condition {
         //#now match the files
         boolean matches = false;
         try {
-            matches = fu.contentEquals(file1, file2);
+            matches = FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(file1, file2);
         } catch (IOException ioe) {
             throw new BuildException("when comparing files: "
                 + ioe.getMessage(), ioe);
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/IsFileSelected.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/IsFileSelected.java
index 35787a742..afef0f191 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/IsFileSelected.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/condition/IsFileSelected.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright 2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors.AbstractSelectorContainer;
  * This is a condition that checks to see if a file passes an embedded selector.
  */
 public class IsFileSelected extends AbstractSelectorContainer implements Condition {
-    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private File file;
     private File baseDir;
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/cvslib/CvsTagDiff.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/cvslib/CvsTagDiff.java
index 09511924e..abbac68a6 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/cvslib/CvsTagDiff.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/cvslib/CvsTagDiff.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  * @ant.task name="cvstagdiff"
  */
 public class CvsTagDiff extends AbstractCvsTask {
+
+    /**
+     * Used to create the temp file for cvs log
+     */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Token to identify the word file in the rdiff log
      */
@@ -122,11 +128,6 @@ public class CvsTagDiff extends AbstractCvsTask {
      */
     private File mydestfile;
 
-    /**
-     * Used to create the temp file for cvs log
-     */
-    private FileUtils myfileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
     /**
      * The package/module to analyze.
      * @param p the name of the package to analyse
@@ -215,7 +216,7 @@ public class CvsTagDiff extends AbstractCvsTask {
         setCommand("");
         File tmpFile = null;
         try {
-            tmpFile = myfileUtils.createTempFile("cvstagdiff", ".log", null);
+            tmpFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("cvstagdiff", ".log", null);
             tmpFile.deleteOnExit();
             setOutput(tmpFile);
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ANTLR.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ANTLR.java
index 7e65d7aa8..f39c90143 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ANTLR.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ANTLR.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -84,12 +84,11 @@ public class ANTLR extends Task {
 
 
     /** Instance of a utility class to use for file operations. */
-    private FileUtils fileUtils;
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     public ANTLR() {
         commandline.setVm(JavaEnvUtils.getJreExecutable("java"));
         commandline.setClassname("antlr.Tool");
-        fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -120,7 +119,7 @@ public class ANTLR extends Task {
         } else {
             sg = superGrammar;
         }
-        setGlib(fileUtils.resolveFile(getProject().getBaseDir(), sg));
+        setGlib(FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(getProject().getBaseDir(), sg));
     }
     /**
      * Sets an optional super grammar file
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/Cab.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/Cab.java
index f088cc620..ab00d4f81 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/Cab.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/Cab.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ public class Cab extends MatchingTask {
 
     protected String archiveType = "cab";
 
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * The name/location of where to create the .cab file.
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ public class Cab extends MatchingTask {
         boolean upToDate = true;
         for (int i = 0; i < files.size() && upToDate; i++) {
             String file = files.elementAt(i).toString();
-            if (fileUtils.resolveFile(baseDir, file).lastModified()
+            if (FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(baseDir, file).lastModified()
                     > cabFile.lastModified()) {
                 upToDate = false;
             }
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ public class Cab extends MatchingTask {
      */
     protected File createListFile(Vector files)
         throws IOException {
-        File listFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("ant", "", null);
+        File listFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("ant", "", null);
         listFile.deleteOnExit();
 
         PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(listFile));
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ public class Cab extends MatchingTask {
                 exec.setDir(baseDir);
 
                 if (!doVerbose) {
-                    outFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("ant", "", null);
+                    outFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("ant", "", null);
                     outFile.deleteOnExit();
                     exec.setOutput(outFile);
                 }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExp.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExp.java
index f9c108399..57c9a6dd5 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExp.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExp.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ public class ReplaceRegExp extends Task {
     private RegularExpression regex;
     private Substitution subs;
 
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * Encoding to assume for the files
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ public class ReplaceRegExp extends Task {
      */
     protected void doReplace(File f, int options)
          throws IOException {
-        File temp = fileUtils.createTempFile("replace", ".txt", null);
+        File temp = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("replace", ".txt", null);
         temp.deleteOnExit();
 
         Reader r = null;
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ public class ReplaceRegExp extends Task {
             if (changes) {
                 log("File has changed; saving the updated file", Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
                 try {
-                    fileUtils.rename(temp, f);
+                    FILE_UTILS.rename(temp, f);
                     temp = null;
                 } catch (IOException e) {
                     throw new BuildException("Couldn't rename temporary file "
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/XMLValidateTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/XMLValidateTask.java
index ced5af8c8..bdf57de24 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/XMLValidateTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/XMLValidateTask.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ public class XMLValidateTask extends Task {
     /**
      * helper for path -> URI and URI -> path conversions.
      */
-    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     protected static final String INIT_FAILED_MSG =
         "Could not start xml validation: ";
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/Ildasm.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/Ildasm.java
index 8d1257deb..0aad2abbb 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/Ildasm.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/Ildasm.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ import java.io.File;
  */
 public class Ildasm extends Task {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+    
     /**
      * source file (mandatory)
      */
@@ -328,7 +330,7 @@ public class Ildasm extends Task {
         }
         long sourceTime = sourceFile.lastModified();
         long destTime = destFile.lastModified();
-        if (sourceTime > (destTime + FileUtils.newFileUtils().getFileTimestampGranularity())) {
+        if (sourceTime > (destTime + FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity())) {
             log("Source file is newer than the dest file: a rebuild is required",
                     Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
             return true;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/ImportTypelib.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/ImportTypelib.java
index 912b79570..e31cb55bd 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/ImportTypelib.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/ImportTypelib.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import java.io.File;
  */
 public class ImportTypelib extends Task {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * input file; precedes options
@@ -166,7 +167,7 @@ public class ImportTypelib extends Task {
         }
         long sourceTime = srcFile.lastModified();
         long destTime = destFile.lastModified();
-        if (sourceTime > (destTime + FileUtils.newFileUtils().getFileTimestampGranularity())) {
+        if (sourceTime > (destTime + FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity())) {
             log("Source file is newer than the dest file: a rebuild is required",
                     Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
             return true;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/NetCommand.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/NetCommand.java
index 6c48a23f2..f93b293d6 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/NetCommand.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/NetCommand.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.util.Hashtable;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
@@ -56,6 +55,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Commandline;
 
 public class NetCommand {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      *  owner project
      */
@@ -326,9 +327,8 @@ public class NetCommand {
             //and set @tmpfile as the command -then we remember to delete the tempfile
             //afterwards
             FileOutputStream fos = null;
-            FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
 
-            temporaryCommandFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("cmd", ".txt", null);
+            temporaryCommandFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("cmd", ".txt", null);
             owner.log("Using response file" + temporaryCommandFile, Project.MSG_VERBOSE);
 
             try {
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/WsdlToDotnet.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/WsdlToDotnet.java
index 47bede134..9c6c2e9b5 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/WsdlToDotnet.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/dotnet/WsdlToDotnet.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.dotnet;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.util.Vector;
 import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
@@ -52,6 +51,11 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 public class WsdlToDotnet extends Task  {
 
+    /**
+     * used for timestamp checking
+     */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * name of output file (required)
      */
@@ -124,11 +128,6 @@ public class WsdlToDotnet extends Task  {
      */
     public static final String ERROR_NO_DEST_FILE = "destination file must be specified";
 
-    /**
-     * used for timestamp checking
-     */
-    private FileUtils fileutils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
     /**
      * Name of the file to generate. Required
      * @param destFile filename
@@ -346,7 +345,7 @@ public class WsdlToDotnet extends Task  {
         if (destLastModified == -1) {
             return true;
         }
-        return !fileutils.isUpToDate(schema.getTimestamp(), destLastModified);
+        return !FILE_UTILS.isUpToDate(schema.getTimestamp(), destLastModified);
     }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ejb/WeblogicDeploymentTool.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ejb/WeblogicDeploymentTool.java
index b5c48aafa..f459b6ebb 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ejb/WeblogicDeploymentTool.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ejb/WeblogicDeploymentTool.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ public class WeblogicDeploymentTool extends GenericDeploymentTool {
     protected static final String COMPILER_EJB11 = "weblogic.ejbc";
     protected static final String COMPILER_EJB20 = "weblogic.ejbc20";
 
+    /** File utilities instance for copying jars */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /** Instance variable that stores the suffix for the weblogic jarfile. */
     private String jarSuffix = ".jar";
 
@@ -136,9 +139,6 @@ public class WeblogicDeploymentTool extends GenericDeploymentTool {
      */
     private Integer jvmDebugLevel = null;
 
-    /** File utilities instance for copying jars */
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-
     private File outputDir;
 
     /**
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ public class WeblogicDeploymentTool extends GenericDeploymentTool {
 
         if (noEJBC) {
             try {
-                fileUtils.copyFile(sourceJar, destJar);
+                FILE_UTILS.copyFile(sourceJar, destJar);
                 if (!keepgenerated) {
                     sourceJar.delete();
                 }
@@ -840,7 +840,7 @@ public class WeblogicDeploymentTool extends GenericDeploymentTool {
                 }
 
                 try {
-                    fileUtils.rename(newWLJarFile, weblogicJarFile);
+                    FILE_UTILS.rename(newWLJarFile, weblogicJarFile);
                 } catch (IOException renameException) {
                     log(renameException.getMessage(), Project.MSG_WARN);
                     rebuild = true;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ejb/WebsphereDeploymentTool.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ejb/WebsphereDeploymentTool.java
index 9476d48a5..728493bd3 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ejb/WebsphereDeploymentTool.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ejb/WebsphereDeploymentTool.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ public class WebsphereDeploymentTool extends GenericDeploymentTool {
     protected static final String WAS_CMP_MAP = "Map.mapxmi";
     protected static final String WAS_CMP_SCHEMA = "Schema.dbxmi";
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /** Instance variable that stores the suffix for the websphere jarfile. */
     private String jarSuffix = ".jar";
 
@@ -840,8 +842,7 @@ public class WebsphereDeploymentTool extends GenericDeploymentTool {
                 }
 
                 try {
-                    FileUtils.newFileUtils().rename(newwasJarFile,
-                                                    websphereJarFile);
+                    FILE_UTILS.rename(newwasJarFile, websphereJarFile);
                 } catch (IOException renameException) {
                     log(renameException.getMessage(), Project.MSG_WARN);
                     rebuild = true;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/i18n/Translate.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/i18n/Translate.java
index 0f83f3b26..e353bf164 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/i18n/Translate.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/i18n/Translate.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ public class Translate extends MatchingTask {
 
      * Used to resolve file names.
      */
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * Last Modified Timestamp of resource bundle file being used.
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ public class Translate extends MatchingTask {
             String[] srcFiles = ds.getIncludedFiles();
             for (int j = 0; j < srcFiles.length; j++) {
                 try {
-                    File dest = fileUtils.resolveFile(toDir, srcFiles[j]);
+                    File dest = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(toDir, srcFiles[j]);
                     //Make sure parent dirs exist, else, create them.
                     try {
                         File destDir = new File(dest.getParent());
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ public class Translate extends MatchingTask {
                             Project.MSG_DEBUG);
                     }
                     destLastModified = dest.lastModified();
-                    File src = fileUtils.resolveFile(ds.getBasedir(), srcFiles[j]);
+                    File src = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(ds.getBasedir(), srcFiles[j]);
                     srcLastModified = src.lastModified();
                     //Check to see if dest file has to be recreated
                     boolean needsWork = forceOverwrite
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/JUnitTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/JUnitTask.java
index b9d4fc303..72424ced1 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/JUnitTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/junit/JUnitTask.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ public class JUnitTask extends Task {
 
     private static final int STRING_BUFFER_SIZE = 128;
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * If true, force ant to re-classload all classes for each JUnit TestCase
      *
@@ -925,7 +927,7 @@ public class JUnitTask extends Task {
      */
     private File createTempPropertiesFile(String prefix) {
         File propsFile =
-            FileUtils.newFileUtils().createTempFile(prefix, ".properties",
+            FILE_UTILS.createTempFile(prefix, ".properties",
                 tmpDir != null ? tmpDir : getProject().getBaseDir());
         propsFile.deleteOnExit();
         return propsFile;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/metamata/AbstractMetamataTask.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/metamata/AbstractMetamataTask.java
index a5d63f99d..f5e26e961 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/metamata/AbstractMetamataTask.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/metamata/AbstractMetamataTask.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.JavaEnvUtils;
  */
 public abstract class AbstractMetamataTask extends Task {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * The user classpath to be provided. It matches the -classpath of the
      * command line. The classpath must includes both the <tt>.class</tt> and the
@@ -282,7 +284,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractMetamataTask extends Task {
     }
 
     protected final File createTmpFile() {
-        File tmpFile = FileUtils.newFileUtils()
+        File tmpFile = FILE_UTILS
             .createTempFile("metamata", ".tmp", getProject().getBaseDir());
         tmpFile.deleteOnExit();
         return tmpFile;
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net/FTP.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net/FTP.java
index 2a87f1e77..297a43bf7 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net/FTP.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/net/FTP.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ public class FTP
     /** Default port for FTP */
     public static final int DEFAULT_FTP_PORT = 21;
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private String remotedir;
     private String server;
     private String userid;
@@ -107,7 +109,6 @@ public class FTP
     private boolean preserveLastModified = false;
     private String chmod = null;
     private String umask = null;
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
 
     protected static final String[] ACTION_STRS = {
         "sending",
@@ -1487,7 +1488,7 @@ public class FTP
         File tempFile = findFileName(ftp);
         try {
             // create a local temporary file
-            fileUtils.createNewFile(tempFile);
+            FILE_UTILS.createNewFile(tempFile);
             long localTimeStamp = tempFile.lastModified();
             BufferedInputStream instream = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(tempFile));
             ftp.storeFile(tempFile.getName(), instream);
@@ -1518,7 +1519,7 @@ public class FTP
         FTPFile [] theFiles = null;
         final int maxIterations = 1000;
         for (int counter = 1; counter < maxIterations; counter++) {
-            File localFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("ant" + Integer.toString(counter), ".tmp",
+            File localFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("ant" + Integer.toString(counter), ".tmp",
                 null);
             String fileName = localFile.getName();
             boolean found = false;
@@ -1809,7 +1810,7 @@ public class FTP
                     outstream = null;
                     FTPFile[] remote = ftp.listFiles(resolveFile(filename));
                     if (remote.length > 0) {
-                        fileUtils.setFileLastModified(file,
+                        FILE_UTILS.setFileLastModified(file,
                                                       remote[0].getTimestamp()
                                                       .getTime().getTime());
                     }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sitraka/CovBase.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sitraka/CovBase.java
index a758c13c8..8642e8740 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sitraka/CovBase.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sitraka/CovBase.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public abstract class CovBase extends Task {
     private File home;
-    private static FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
     private boolean isJProbe4 = false;
     private static boolean isDos = Os.isFamily("dos");
 
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ public abstract class CovBase extends Task {
     protected File findCoverageJar() {
         File loc = null;
         if (isJProbe4) {
-            loc = fu.resolveFile(home, "lib/coverage.jar");
+            loc = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(home, "lib/coverage.jar");
         } else {
-            loc = fu.resolveFile(home, "coverage/coverage.jar");
+            loc = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(home, "coverage/coverage.jar");
             if (!loc.canRead()) {
-                File newLoc = fu.resolveFile(home, "lib/coverage.jar");
+                File newLoc = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(home, "lib/coverage.jar");
                 if (newLoc.canRead()) {
                     isJProbe4 = true;
                     loc = newLoc;
@@ -70,11 +70,11 @@ public abstract class CovBase extends Task {
 
         File loc = null;
         if (isJProbe4) {
-            loc = fu.resolveFile(home, "bin/" + relativePath);
+            loc = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(home, "bin/" + relativePath);
         } else {
-            loc = fu.resolveFile(home, relativePath);
+            loc = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(home, relativePath);
             if (!loc.canRead()) {
-                File newLoc = fu.resolveFile(home, "bin/" + relativePath);
+                File newLoc = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(home, "bin/" + relativePath);
                 if (newLoc.canRead()) {
                     isJProbe4 = true;
                     loc = newLoc;
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public abstract class CovBase extends Task {
     }
 
     protected File createTempFile(String prefix) {
-        return fu.createTempFile(prefix, ".tmp", null);
+        return FILE_UTILS.createTempFile(prefix, ".tmp", null);
     }
 
     protected String getParamFileArgument() {
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/unix/Symlink.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/unix/Symlink.java
index 055cb3402..72d642efa 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/unix/Symlink.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/unix/Symlink.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -118,6 +118,8 @@ public class Symlink extends Task {
     private boolean overwrite;
     private boolean failonerror;
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+    
     /** Initialize the task. */
 
     public void init() throws BuildException {
@@ -163,10 +165,9 @@ public class Symlink extends Task {
                     // handle the case where the link exists
                     // and points to a directory (bug 25181)
                     try {
-                        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
                         File test = new File(link);
                         File testRes = new File(resource);
-                        if (!fu.isSymbolicLink(test.getParentFile(),
+                        if (!FILE_UTILS.isSymbolicLink(test.getParentFile(),
                                                test.getName())) {
                             doLink(resource, link);
                         } else {
@@ -396,12 +397,12 @@ public class Symlink extends Task {
         // rename the resource, thus breaking the link
         String parentStr = canfil.getParent();
         File parentDir = new File(parentStr);
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        File temp = fu.createTempFile("symlink", ".tmp", parentDir);
+
+        File temp = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("symlink", ".tmp", parentDir);
         temp.deleteOnExit();
         try {
             try {
-                fu.rename(canfil, temp);
+                FILE_UTILS.rename(canfil, temp);
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 throw new IOException("Couldn't rename resource when "
                                       + "attempting to delete " + linkfil);
@@ -416,7 +417,7 @@ public class Symlink extends Task {
         } finally {
             // return the resource to its original name.
             try {
-                fu.rename(temp, canfil);
+                FILE_UTILS.rename(temp, canfil);
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 throw new IOException("Couldn't return resource " + temp
                                       + " to its original name: " + canstr
@@ -626,7 +627,6 @@ public class Symlink extends Task {
 
             File parentNext, next;
             String nameParentNext;
-            FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
             Vector removals = new Vector();
             while (enumLinks.hasMoreElements()) {
                 next = (File) enumLinks.nextElement();
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ public class Symlink extends Task {
 
                 parentNext = new File(nameParentNext);
                 try {
-                    if (!fu.isSymbolicLink(parentNext, next.getName())) {
+                    if (!FILE_UTILS.isSymbolicLink(parentNext, next.getName())) {
                         removals.addElement(next);
                     }
                 } catch (IOException ioe) {
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/repository/Library.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/repository/Library.java
index e125f082f..1e3cf7ad8 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/repository/Library.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/repository/Library.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public class Library implements EnabledLibraryElement {
      */
     private boolean enabled = true;
 
-    private static FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * turn policy on/off
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/XMLCatalog.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/XMLCatalog.java
index 282d0d049..54b0b05e9 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/XMLCatalog.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/XMLCatalog.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ public class XMLCatalog extends DataType
     implements Cloneable, EntityResolver, URIResolver {
 
     /** helper for some File.toURL connversions */
-    private static FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     //-- Fields ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ public class XMLCatalog extends DataType
             URL baseURL = null;
             try {
                 if (base == null) {
-                    baseURL = fileUtils.getFileURL(getProject().getBaseDir());
+                    baseURL = FILE_UTILS.getFileURL(getProject().getBaseDir());
                 } else {
                     baseURL = new URL(base);
                 }
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ public class XMLCatalog extends DataType
             baseURL = matchingEntry.getBase();
         } else {
             try {
-                baseURL = fileUtils.getFileURL(getProject().getBaseDir());
+                baseURL = FILE_UTILS.getFileURL(getProject().getBaseDir());
             } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
                 throw new BuildException("Project basedir cannot be converted to a URL");
             }
@@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ public class XMLCatalog extends DataType
                 log("uri : '"
                     + uri + "' matches a readable file", Project.MSG_DEBUG);
                 try {
-                    url = fileUtils.getFileURL(testFile);
+                    url = FILE_UTILS.getFileURL(testFile);
                 } catch (MalformedURLException ex1) {
                     throw new BuildException("could not find an URL for :" + testFile.getAbsolutePath());
                 }
@@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ public class XMLCatalog extends DataType
         }
 
         if (url != null) {
-            String fileName = fileUtils.fromURI(url.toString());
+            String fileName = FILE_UTILS.fromURI(url.toString());
             if (fileName != null) {
                 log("fileName " + fileName, Project.MSG_DEBUG);
                 File resFile = new File(fileName);
@@ -756,7 +756,7 @@ public class XMLCatalog extends DataType
             baseURL = matchingEntry.getBase();
         } else {
             try {
-                baseURL = fileUtils.getFileURL(getProject().getBaseDir());
+                baseURL = FILE_UTILS.getFileURL(getProject().getBaseDir());
             } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
                 throw new BuildException("Project basedir cannot be converted to a URL");
             }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DateSelector.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DateSelector.java
index 8a65d91d6..8f8e8daad 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DateSelector.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DateSelector.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import java.text.ParseException;
 import java.util.Locale;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.EnumeratedAttribute;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Parameter;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
@@ -36,6 +35,9 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class DateSelector extends BaseExtendSelector {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private long millis = -1;
     private String dateTime = null;
     private boolean includeDirs = false;
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ public class DateSelector extends BaseExtendSelector {
      *
      */
     public DateSelector() {
-        granularity = FileUtils.getFileUtils().getFileTimestampGranularity();
+        granularity = FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity();
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DifferentSelector.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DifferentSelector.java
index c1a76acc7..93b47cfb5 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DifferentSelector.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/DifferentSelector.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public class DifferentSelector extends MappingSelector {
 
-    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     private boolean ignoreFileTimes = true;
     private boolean ignoreContents = false;
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ public class DifferentSelector extends MappingSelector {
         if (!ignoreContents) {
             //here do a bulk comparison
             try {
-                return !fileUtils.contentEquals(srcfile, destfile);
+                return !FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(srcfile, destfile);
             } catch (IOException e) {
                 throw new BuildException("while comparing " + srcfile + " and "
                         + destfile, e);
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/MappingSelector.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/MappingSelector.java
index 15eb0453f..9421ab55d 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/MappingSelector.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/MappingSelector.java
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ import java.io.File;
  * selector
  */
 public abstract class MappingSelector extends BaseSelector {
+
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     protected File targetdir = null;
     protected Mapper mapperElement = null;
     protected FileNameMapper map = null;
@@ -40,7 +44,7 @@ public abstract class MappingSelector extends BaseSelector {
      *
      */
     public MappingSelector() {
-        granularity = (int) FileUtils.getFileUtils().getFileTimestampGranularity();
+        granularity = (int) FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity();
     }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
index caf162903..e5bc151c5 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
@@ -58,14 +58,16 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Locator;
  */
 
 public class FileUtils {
-    
+
     private static final FileUtils PRIMARY_INSTANCE = new FileUtils();
-    
+
     //get some non-crypto-grade randomness from various places.
     private static Random rand = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis()
             + Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory());
 
     private static boolean onNetWare = Os.isFamily("netware");
+    
+    private static final int BUF_SIZE = 8192;
 
     // for toURI
     private static boolean[] isSpecial = new boolean[256];
@@ -119,6 +121,7 @@ public class FileUtils {
      * Method to retrieve The FileUtils, which is shared by all users of this
      * method.
      * @return an instance of FileUtils.
+     * @since Ant 1.7
      */
     public static FileUtils getFileUtils() {
         return PRIMARY_INSTANCE;
@@ -555,7 +558,7 @@ public class FileUtils {
 
                     if (filterChainsAvailable) {
                         ChainReaderHelper crh = new ChainReaderHelper();
-                        crh.setBufferSize(8192);
+                        crh.setBufferSize(BUF_SIZE);
                         crh.setPrimaryReader(in);
                         crh.setFilterChains(filterChains);
                         crh.setProject(project);
@@ -612,14 +615,14 @@ public class FileUtils {
 
                      if (filterChainsAvailable) {
                          ChainReaderHelper crh = new ChainReaderHelper();
-                         crh.setBufferSize(8192);
+                         crh.setBufferSize(BUF_SIZE);
                          crh.setPrimaryReader(in);
                          crh.setFilterChains(filterChains);
                          crh.setProject(project);
                          Reader rdr = crh.getAssembledReader();
                          in = new BufferedReader(rdr);
                      }
-                     char[] buffer = new char[1024 * 8];
+                     char[] buffer = new char[BUF_SIZE];
                      while (true) {
                          int nRead = in.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
                          if (nRead == -1) {
@@ -1052,7 +1055,7 @@ public class FileUtils {
      *         reader.
      */
     public static final String readFully(Reader rdr) throws IOException {
-        return readFully(rdr, 8192);
+        return readFully(rdr, BUF_SIZE);
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JAXPUtils.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JAXPUtils.java
index 8ac0dcb41..369b7e9cc 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JAXPUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JAXPUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class JAXPUtils {
      *
      * @since Ant 1.6
      */
-    private static final FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /**
      * Parser factory to use to create parsers.
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ public class JAXPUtils {
      * @since Ant 1.5.2
      */
     public static String getSystemId(File file) {
-        return fu.toURI(file.getAbsolutePath());
+        return FILE_UTILS.toURI(file.getAbsolutePath());
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JavaEnvUtils.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JavaEnvUtils.java
index 8bddb3f69..d4be68715 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JavaEnvUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JavaEnvUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public class JavaEnvUtils {
     private static final String javaHome = System.getProperty("java.home");
 
     /** FileUtils instance for path normalization */
-    private static final FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     /** Version of currently running VM. */
     private static String javaVersion;
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ public class JavaEnvUtils {
      * @return null if the executable cannot be found.
      */
     private static File findInDir(String dirName, String commandName) {
-        File dir = fileUtils.normalize(dirName);
+        File dir = FILE_UTILS.normalize(dirName);
         File executable = null;
         if (dir.exists()) {
             executable = new File(dir, addExtension(commandName));
@@ -371,8 +371,7 @@ public class JavaEnvUtils {
      */
     public static File createVmsJavaOptionFile(String[] cmd)
             throws IOException {
-        File script = FileUtils.newFileUtils()
-                .createTempFile("ANT", ".JAVA_OPTS", null);
+        File script = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("ANT", ".JAVA_OPTS", null);
         PrintWriter out = null;
         try {
             out = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(script)));
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LoaderUtils.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LoaderUtils.java
index 057681710..28a559cf4 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LoaderUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/LoaderUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Locator;
  *
  */
 public class LoaderUtils {
+
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Set the context classloader
      *
@@ -67,9 +71,8 @@ public class LoaderUtils {
      */
     private static File normalizeSource(File source) {
         if (source != null) {
-            FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
             try {
-                source = fileUtils.normalize(source.getAbsolutePath());
+                source = FILE_UTILS.normalize(source.getAbsolutePath());
             } catch (BuildException e) {
                 // relative path
             }
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/ResourceUtils.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/ResourceUtils.java
index ad721df43..b23e907d6 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/ResourceUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/ResourceUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ import java.util.Vector;
  */
 public class ResourceUtils {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * tells which source files should be reprocessed based on the
      * last modification date of target files
@@ -51,8 +54,7 @@ public class ResourceUtils {
                                                     FileNameMapper mapper,
                                                     ResourceFactory targets) {
         return selectOutOfDateSources(logTo, source, mapper, targets,
-                                      FileUtils.newFileUtils()
-                                      .getFileTimestampGranularity());
+                                      FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity());
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/SourceFileScanner.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/SourceFileScanner.java
index 59f390e5b..ebf45a12a 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/SourceFileScanner.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/SourceFileScanner.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public class SourceFileScanner implements ResourceFactory {
 
     protected Task task;
 
-    private FileUtils fileUtils;
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
     private File destDir;     // base directory of the fileset
 
     /**
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ public class SourceFileScanner implements ResourceFactory {
      */
     public SourceFileScanner(Task task) {
         this.task = task;
-        fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
     }
 
     /**
@@ -61,7 +60,7 @@ public class SourceFileScanner implements ResourceFactory {
     public String[] restrict(String[] files, File srcDir, File destDir,
                              FileNameMapper mapper) {
         return restrict(files, srcDir, destDir, mapper,
-                        fileUtils.getFileTimestampGranularity());
+                        FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ public class SourceFileScanner implements ResourceFactory {
         this.destDir = destDir;
         Vector v = new Vector();
         for (int i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
-            File src = fileUtils.resolveFile(srcDir, files[i]);
+            File src = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(srcDir, files[i]);
             v.addElement(new Resource(files[i], src.exists(),
                                       src.lastModified(), src.isDirectory()));
         }
@@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ public class SourceFileScanner implements ResourceFactory {
     public File[] restrictAsFiles(String[] files, File srcDir, File destDir,
                                   FileNameMapper mapper) {
         return restrictAsFiles(files, srcDir, destDir, mapper,
-                               fileUtils.getFileTimestampGranularity());
+                               FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity());
     }
 
     /**
@@ -140,7 +139,7 @@ public class SourceFileScanner implements ResourceFactory {
      * @since Ant 1.5.2
      */
     public Resource getResource(String name) {
-        File src = fileUtils.resolveFile(destDir, name);
+        File src = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(destDir, name);
         return new Resource(name, src.exists(), src.lastModified(),
                             src.isDirectory());
     }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/AntClassLoaderDelegationTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/AntClassLoaderDelegationTest.java
index 722ffb2a0..86f58d1d5 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/AntClassLoaderDelegationTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/AntClassLoaderDelegationTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.List;
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
@@ -37,6 +36,9 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class AntClassLoaderDelegationTest extends TestCase {
 
+    /** Instance of a utility class to use for file operations. */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private Project p;
 
     public AntClassLoaderDelegationTest(String name) {
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ public class AntClassLoaderDelegationTest extends TestCase {
         // An AntClassLoader which is supposed to delegate to the parent and then to the disk path:
         ClassLoader acl = new AntClassLoader(parent, p, path, true);
         // The intended result URLs:
-        URL urlFromPath = new URL(FileUtils.newFileUtils().toURI(buildTestcases) + TEST_RESOURCE);
+        URL urlFromPath = new URL(FILE_UTILS.toURI(buildTestcases) + TEST_RESOURCE);
         URL urlFromParent = new URL("http://ant.apache.org/" + TEST_RESOURCE);
         assertEquals("correct resources (regular delegation order)",
             Arrays.asList(new URL[] {urlFromParent, urlFromPath}),
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilterTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilterTest.java
index 1e365635d..c7cd74392 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilterTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilterTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class ConcatFilterTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
-    private static FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
     private static final String lSep = 
         Os.isFamily("mac") ? "\r" : System.getProperty("line.separator");
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ public class ConcatFilterTest extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("testFilterReaderNoArgs");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("input/concatfilter.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.FilterReaderNoArgs.test");
-        assertTrue("testFilterReaderNoArgs: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testFilterReaderNoArgs: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testFilterReaderBefore() {
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/EscapeUnicodeTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/EscapeUnicodeTest.java
index 3d22b6528..63535e1ee 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/EscapeUnicodeTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/EscapeUnicodeTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 /**
  */
 public class EscapeUnicodeTest extends BuildFileTest {
+    
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     public EscapeUnicodeTest(String name) {
         super(name);
@@ -43,8 +45,7 @@ public class EscapeUnicodeTest extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("testEscapeUnicode");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/escapeunicode.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/escapeunicode.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue(fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/HeadTailTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/HeadTailTest.java
index 4980c85e3..c7ffbbf96 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/HeadTailTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/HeadTailTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 */
 public class HeadTailTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+    
     public HeadTailTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -46,32 +48,28 @@ public class HeadTailTest extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("testHead");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.head.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.head.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testHead: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testHead: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testHeadLines() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testHeadLines");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.headLines.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.headLines.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testHeadLines: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testHeadLines: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testHeadSkip() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testHeadSkip");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.headSkip.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.headSkip.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testHeadSkip: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testHeadSkip: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testHeadLinesSkip() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testHeadLinesSkip");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.headLinesSkip.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.headLinesSkip.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testHeadLinesSkip: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testHeadLinesSkip: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testFilterReaderHeadLinesSkip() throws IOException {
@@ -80,41 +78,36 @@ public class HeadTailTest extends BuildFileTest {
             "expected/head-tail.headLinesSkip.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile(
             "result/head-tail.filterReaderHeadLinesSkip.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         assertTrue("testFilterReaderHeadLinesSkip: Result not like expected",
-                   fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+                   FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testTail() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testTail");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.tail.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.tail.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testTail: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testTail: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testTailLines() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testTailLines");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.tailLines.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.tailLines.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testTailLines: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testTailLines: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testTailSkip() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testTailSkip");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.tailSkip.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.tailSkip.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testTailSkip: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testTailSkip: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testTailLinesSkip() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testTailLinesSkip");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.tailLinesSkip.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.tailLinesSkip.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testTailLinesSkip: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testTailLinesSkip: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testFilterReaderTailLinesSkip() throws IOException {
@@ -123,17 +116,15 @@ public class HeadTailTest extends BuildFileTest {
             "expected/head-tail.tailLinesSkip.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile(
             "result/head-tail.filterReaderTailLinesSkip.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         assertTrue("testFilterReaderTailLinesSkip: Result not like expected",
-                   fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+                   FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
     public void testHeadTail() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testHeadTail");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/head-tail.headtail.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/head-tail.headtail.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("testHeadTail: Result not like expected", fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue("testHeadTail: Result not like expected", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/LineContainsTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/LineContainsTest.java
index 7151ecd3b..e9e052f2d 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/LineContainsTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/LineContainsTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class LineContainsTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+    
     public LineContainsTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -43,8 +45,7 @@ public class LineContainsTest extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("testLineContains");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/linecontains.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/linecontains.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue(fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ReplaceTokensTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ReplaceTokensTest.java
index 6ef0f395a..2d00922af 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ReplaceTokensTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ReplaceTokensTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 /**
  */
 public class ReplaceTokensTest extends BuildFileTest {
+    
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     public ReplaceTokensTest(String name) {
         super(name);
@@ -43,8 +45,7 @@ public class ReplaceTokensTest extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("testReplaceTokens");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/replacetokens.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/replacetokens.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue(fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/StripJavaCommentsTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/StripJavaCommentsTest.java
index 90453b21e..a298acdec 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/StripJavaCommentsTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/StripJavaCommentsTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 /**
  */
 public class StripJavaCommentsTest extends BuildFileTest {
+    
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     public StripJavaCommentsTest(String name) {
         super(name);
@@ -43,8 +45,7 @@ public class StripJavaCommentsTest extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("testStripJavaComments");
         File expected = getProject().resolveFile("expected/stripjavacomments.test");
         File result = getProject().resolveFile("result/stripjavacomments.test");
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue(fu.contentEquals(expected, result));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(expected, result));
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BUnzip2Test.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BUnzip2Test.java
index f44416993..676599953 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BUnzip2Test.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BUnzip2Test.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public class BUnzip2Test extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public BUnzip2Test(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -40,11 +43,10 @@ public class BUnzip2Test extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("cleanup");
     }
 
-    public void testRealTest() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    public void testRealTest() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("realTest");
         assertTrue("File content mismatch after bunzip2",
-            fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("expected/asf-logo-huge.tar"),
+            FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("expected/asf-logo-huge.tar"),
                                     project.resolveFile("asf-logo-huge.tar")));
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BZip2Test.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BZip2Test.java
index a1e00c341..35c4c5950 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BZip2Test.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/BZip2Test.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public class BZip2Test extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public BZip2Test(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -40,11 +43,10 @@ public class BZip2Test extends BuildFileTest {
         executeTarget("cleanup");
     }
 
-    public void testRealTest() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    public void testRealTest() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("realTest");
         assertTrue("File content mismatch",
-            fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("expected/asf-logo-huge.tar.bz2"),
+            FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("expected/asf-logo-huge.tar.bz2"),
                                     project.resolveFile("asf-logo-huge.tar.bz2")));
     }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ChecksumTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ChecksumTest.java
index 5069aa4d7..2128930f2 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ChecksumTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ChecksumTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001,2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001,2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -41,22 +40,18 @@ public class ChecksumTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testCreateMd5() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("createMd5");
     }
 
     public void testCreateMD5SUMformat() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("createMD5SUMformat");
     }
     
     public void testCreateSVFformat() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("createSVFformat");
     }
     
     public void testCreatePattern() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("createPattern");
     }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ConcatTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ConcatTest.java
index 940c6d19a..562b4d5aa 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ConcatTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ConcatTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ public class ConcatTest
      */
     private static final String tempFile2 = "concat.tmp.2";
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Required constructor.
      */
@@ -268,9 +271,8 @@ public class ConcatTest
 
     public void testTranscoding() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testTranscoding");
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         File f1 = getProject().resolveFile("copy/expected/utf-8");
         File f2 = getProject().resolveFile("concat.utf8");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(f1, f2));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(f1, f2));
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/CopyTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/CopyTest.java
index 82be6cfc7..553737b46 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/CopyTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/CopyTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.JavaEnvUtils;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -30,6 +29,9 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public class CopyTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public CopyTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -100,20 +102,18 @@ public class CopyTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
     public void testFilterSet() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testFilterSet");
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         File tmp  = new File(getProjectDir(), "copy.filterset.tmp");
         File check  = new File(getProjectDir(), "expected/copy.filterset.filtered");
         assertTrue(tmp.exists());
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(tmp, check));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(tmp, check));
     }
 
     public void testFilterChain() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testFilterChain");
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         File tmp  = new File(getProjectDir(), "copy.filterchain.tmp");
         File check  = new File(getProjectDir(), "expected/copy.filterset.filtered");
         assertTrue(tmp.exists());
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(tmp, check));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(tmp, check));
     }
 
     public void testSingleFileFileset() {
@@ -125,10 +125,9 @@ public class CopyTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
     public void testTranscoding() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testTranscoding");
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         File f1 = getProject().resolveFile("copy/expected/utf-8");
         File f2 = getProject().resolveFile("copytest1.tmp");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(f1, f2));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(f1, f2));
     }
 
     public void testMissingFileIgnore() {
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTaskTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTaskTest.java
index f117c86c7..c351b5b84 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTaskTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/ExecTaskTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation.
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
 
 import junit.framework.ComparisonFailure;
@@ -39,6 +38,10 @@ public class ExecTaskTest extends BuildFileTest {
     private static final int MAX_BUILD_TIME = 4000;
     private static final int SECURITY_MARGIN = 2000; // wait 2 second extras
     // the test failed with 100 ms of margin on cvs.apache.org on August 1st, 2003
+
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private File logFile;
     private MonitoredBuild myBuild = null;
     volatile private boolean buildFinished = false;
@@ -316,7 +319,7 @@ public class ExecTaskTest extends BuildFileTest {
             return;
         }
         assertTrue("error with transcoding",
-            FileUtils.newFileUtils().contentEquals(
+            FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(
             getProject().resolveFile("expected/utf-8"),
             getProject().resolveFile("redirector.out")));
     }
@@ -343,8 +346,7 @@ public class ExecTaskTest extends BuildFileTest {
             return;
         }
         myBuild = new MonitoredBuild(new File(System.getProperty("root"), BUILD_FILE), "spawn");
-        FileUtils fileutils  = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        logFile = fileutils.createTempFile("spawn","log", project.getBaseDir());
+        logFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("spawn","log", project.getBaseDir());
         // this is guaranteed by FileUtils#createTempFile
         assertTrue("log file not existing", !logFile.exists());
         // make the spawned process run 4 seconds
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/GUnzipTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/GUnzipTest.java
index a3e05a3af..498856ca1 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/GUnzipTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/GUnzipTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2001,2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
  */
 package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs;
 
-import java.io.File;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
@@ -25,6 +24,9 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class GUnzipTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public GUnzipTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -46,16 +48,14 @@ public class GUnzipTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testRealTest() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("realTest");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
     public void testTestGzipTask() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("testGzipTask");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/InitializeClassTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/InitializeClassTest.java
index 2857ccf70..414c939a6 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/InitializeClassTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/InitializeClassTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import java.io.File;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
@@ -31,7 +30,10 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  *
  */
 public class InitializeClassTest extends BuildFileTest {
-    
+
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private File f1 = new File(System.getProperty("root"), "src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/forkedout");
     private File f2 = new File(System.getProperty("root"), "src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/unforkedout");
 
@@ -51,8 +53,7 @@ public class InitializeClassTest extends BuildFileTest {
         project.executeTarget("unforked");
         System.setOut(ps);
         newps.close();
-        FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue("Forked - non-forked mismatch", fu.contentEquals(f1, f2));
+        assertTrue("Forked - non-forked mismatch", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(f1, f2));
     }
 
     public void tearDown() {
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JarTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JarTest.java
index ef0da75fc..99c19f291 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JarTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JarTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -24,18 +24,19 @@ import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.Reader;
-import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
 import java.util.zip.ZipFile;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 /**
  */
 public class JarTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private static String tempJar = "tmp.jar";
     private static String tempDir = "jartmp/";
     private Reader r1, r2;
@@ -125,7 +126,7 @@ public class JarTest extends BuildFileTest {
     private void testRecreate(String firstTarget, String secondTarget) {
         executeTarget(firstTarget);
         long sleeptime = 3000
-            + FileUtils.newFileUtils().getFileTimestampGranularity();
+            + FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity();
         try {
             Thread.sleep(sleeptime);
         } catch (InterruptedException e) {
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JavaTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JavaTest.java
index 3e05919e9..8bbcaff2e 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JavaTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/JavaTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,9 +17,13 @@
 
 package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs;
 
-import junit.framework.*;
-import java.io.*;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.*;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+
+import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.TeeOutputStream;
 
@@ -33,6 +37,9 @@ public class JavaTest extends BuildFileTest {
     // this time was OK on a Win NT machine and on nagoya
     private static final int SECURITY_MARGIN = 2000;
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     private boolean runFatalTests=false;
 
     public JavaTest(String name) {
@@ -167,8 +174,7 @@ public class JavaTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testSpawn() {
-        FileUtils fileutils  = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        File logFile = fileutils.createTempFile("spawn","log", project.getBaseDir());
+        File logFile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("spawn","log", project.getBaseDir());
         // this is guaranteed by FileUtils#createTempFile
         assertTrue("log file not existing", !logFile.exists());
         project.setProperty("logFile", logFile.getAbsolutePath());
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MoveTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MoveTest.java
index a21976f4f..1c4c657da 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MoveTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/MoveTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -29,6 +28,9 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public class MoveTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public MoveTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -43,20 +45,18 @@ public class MoveTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
     public void testFilterSet() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testFilterSet");
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         File tmp  = new File(getProjectDir(), "move.filterset.tmp");
         File check  = new File(getProjectDir(), "expected/copy.filterset.filtered");
         assertTrue(tmp.exists());
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(tmp, check));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(tmp, check));
     }
 
     public void testFilterChain() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testFilterChain");
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         File tmp  = new File(getProjectDir(), "move.filterchain.tmp");
         File check  = new File(getProjectDir(), "expected/copy.filterset.filtered");
         assertTrue(tmp.exists());
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(tmp, check));
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(tmp, check));
     }
 
     /** Bugzilla Report 11732 */
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PropertyTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PropertyTest.java
index a328a0732..69d7c13c6 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PropertyTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/PropertyTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
 
 package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs;
 
-import java.net.URL;
-import java.io.File;
-
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
@@ -28,6 +25,9 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class PropertyTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public PropertyTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ public class PropertyTest extends BuildFileTest {
     public void test5() {
         String baseDir = getProject().getProperty("basedir");
         try {
-            String uri = FileUtils.newFileUtils().toURI(
+            String uri = FILE_UTILS.toURI(
                 baseDir + "/property3.properties");
             getProject().setNewProperty(
                 "test5.url", uri);
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/RecorderTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/RecorderTest.java
index c0296ed23..adf05e453 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/RecorderTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/RecorderTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2004-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ public class RecorderTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
     private static final String REC_DIR = "recorder-out";
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public RecorderTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -43,9 +46,8 @@ public class RecorderTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testNoAppend() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("noappend");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS
                    .contentEquals(project.resolveFile(REC_DIR 
                                                       + "rectest1.result"),
                                   project.resolveFile(REC_DIR 
@@ -53,9 +55,8 @@ public class RecorderTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testAppend() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("append");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS
                    .contentEquals(project.resolveFile(REC_DIR 
                                                       + "rectest2.result"),
                                   project.resolveFile(REC_DIR 
@@ -63,9 +64,8 @@ public class RecorderTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testRestart() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("restart");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS
                    .contentEquals(project.resolveFile(REC_DIR 
                                                       + "rectest3.result"),
                                   project.resolveFile(REC_DIR 
@@ -73,9 +73,8 @@ public class RecorderTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testDeleteRestart() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("deleterestart");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS
                    .contentEquals(project.resolveFile(REC_DIR 
                                                       + "rectest4.result"),
                                   project.resolveFile(REC_DIR 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/TouchTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/TouchTest.java
index 034071d70..9b0908de9 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/TouchTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/TouchTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ public class TouchTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
     private static String TOUCH_FILE = "src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/touchtest";
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public TouchTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -155,7 +158,7 @@ public class TouchTest extends BuildFileTest {
      * @param time
      */
     public void assertTimesNearlyMatch(long timestamp,long time) {
-        long granularity= FileUtils.newFileUtils().getFileTimestampGranularity();
+        long granularity= FILE_UTILS.getFileTimestampGranularity();
         assertTimesNearlyMatch(timestamp, time, granularity);
     }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/UntarTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/UntarTest.java
index f3203585b..68fc4bb9d 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/UntarTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/UntarTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
  */
 public class UntarTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public UntarTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -37,44 +40,38 @@ public class UntarTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testRealTest() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("realTest");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
     public void testRealGzipTest() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("realGzipTest");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
     public void testRealBzip2Test() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("realBzip2Test");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
     public void testTestTarTask() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("testTarTask");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
     public void testTestGzipTarTask() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("testGzipTarTask");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
     public void testTestBzip2TarTask() throws java.io.IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         executeTarget("testBzip2TarTask");
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/UnzipTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/UnzipTest.java
index 9b7010f42..e09c2f768 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/UnzipTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/UnzipTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2000-2001,2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2000-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public class UnzipTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public UnzipTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -60,8 +63,7 @@ public class UnzipTest extends BuildFileTest {
      * @throws IOException
      */
     private void assertLogoUncorrupted() throws IOException {
-        FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
-        assertTrue(fileUtils.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
+        assertTrue(FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(project.resolveFile("../asf-logo.gif"),
                                            project.resolveFile("asf-logo.gif")));
     }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlPropertyTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlPropertyTest.java
index 631d9465a..ba431ecf4 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlPropertyTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/XmlPropertyTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 /**
  */
 public class XmlPropertyTest extends BuildFileTest {
-    private static FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     public XmlPropertyTest(String name) {
         super(name);
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ public class XmlPropertyTest extends BuildFileTest {
             if ( localRoot ) {
                 workingDir = inputFile.getParentFile();
             } else {
-                workingDir = fileUtils.resolveFile(new File("."), ".");
+                workingDir = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File("."), ".");
             }
 
             try {
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/AbstractXSLTLiaisonTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/AbstractXSLTLiaisonTest.java
index a9914b2b5..2bd4daeab 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/AbstractXSLTLiaisonTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/AbstractXSLTLiaisonTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001,2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ import org.w3c.dom.Document;
  */
 public abstract class AbstractXSLTLiaisonTest extends TestCase {
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+    
     protected XSLTLiaison liaison;
 
     protected  AbstractXSLTLiaisonTest(String name){
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractXSLTLiaisonTest extends TestCase {
         if (url == null){
           throw new FileNotFoundException("Unable to load '" + name + "' from classpath");
         }
-        return new File(FileUtils.newFileUtils().fromURI(url.toExternalForm()));
+        return new File(FILE_UTILS.fromURI(url.toExternalForm()));
     }
 
     /** keep it simple stupid */
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExpTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExpTest.java
index 171623718..fd34c9961 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExpTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExpTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  */
 public class ReplaceRegExpTest extends BuildFileTest {
     private static final String PROJECT_PATH = "src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional";
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+    
     public ReplaceRegExpTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -87,7 +89,7 @@ public class ReplaceRegExpTest extends BuildFileTest {
     public void testDontAddNewline1() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testDontAddNewline1");
         assertTrue("Files match",
-                   FileUtils.newFileUtils()
+                   FILE_UTILS
                    .contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), PROJECT_PATH + "/test.properties"),
                                   new File(System.getProperty("root"), PROJECT_PATH + "/replaceregexp2.result.properties")));
     }
@@ -95,7 +97,7 @@ public class ReplaceRegExpTest extends BuildFileTest {
     public void testDontAddNewline2() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testDontAddNewline2");
         assertTrue("Files match",
-                   FileUtils.newFileUtils()
+                   FILE_UTILS
                    .contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), PROJECT_PATH + "/test.properties"),
                                   new File(System.getProperty("root"), PROJECT_PATH + "/replaceregexp2.result.properties")));
     }
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/image/ImageTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/image/ImageTest.java
index 7036ca9b0..1e8e98c69 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/image/ImageTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/image/ImageTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -19,16 +19,9 @@ package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.image;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildFileTest;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
-import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
 
-import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.FileReader;
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.util.Properties;
+
 
 /**
  * Tests the Image task.
@@ -41,6 +34,8 @@ public class ImageTest extends BuildFileTest {
         "src/etc/testcases/taskdefs/optional/image/";
     private final static String LARGEIMAGE = "largeimage.jpg";
 
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public ImageTest(String name) {
         super(name);
     }
@@ -73,7 +68,7 @@ public class ImageTest extends BuildFileTest {
         File f = createRelativeFile("/dest/" + LARGEIMAGE);
         long lastModified = f.lastModified();
         try {
-            Thread.sleep(FileUtils.newFileUtils()
+            Thread.sleep(FILE_UTILS
                          .getFileTimestampGranularity());
         }
         catch (InterruptedException e) {}
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sitraka/XMLReportTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sitraka/XMLReportTest.java
index 519d80b0a..4691057d2 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sitraka/XMLReportTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/sitraka/XMLReportTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001,2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
  */
 public class XMLReportTest extends TestCase {
     /** helper for some File/URL connversions */
-    private static FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     public XMLReportTest(String s) {
         super(s);
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ public class XMLReportTest extends TestCase {
         if (url == null) {
             throw new FileNotFoundException("Unable to load '" + name + "' from classpath");
         }
-        return new File(fileUtils.fromURI(url.toString()));
+        return new File(FILE_UTILS.fromURI(url.toString()));
     }
 
     public void testCreateDocument() throws Exception {
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/ModifiedSelectorTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/ModifiedSelectorTest.java
index afb09cfdd..cec781c63 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/ModifiedSelectorTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/types/selectors/ModifiedSelectorTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2003-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2003-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ package org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors;
 
 // Java
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.util.Comparator;
 import java.util.Iterator;
 import java.text.RuleBasedCollator;
@@ -38,6 +37,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildEvent;
 
 // The classes to test
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors.modifiedselector.*;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 
 /**
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.types.selectors.modifiedselector.*;
  */
 public class ModifiedSelectorTest extends BaseSelectorTest {
 
+    /** Utilities used for file operations */
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
 
     //  =====================  attributes  =====================
 
@@ -388,8 +390,7 @@ public class ModifiedSelectorTest extends BaseSelectorTest {
      * configure() method of ModifiedSelector. This testcase tests that.
      */
     public void testCreatePropertiesCacheViaCustomSelector() {
-        File cachefile = org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils.newFileUtils()
-                         .createTempFile("tmp-cache-", ".properties", null);
+        File cachefile = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("tmp-cache-", ".properties", null);
         try {
             // initialize test environment (called "bed")
             makeBed();
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtilsTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtilsTest.java
index ad55d416d..6f71455d0 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtilsTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtilsTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2001-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
 
 package org.apache.tools.ant.util;
 
-import java.io.*;
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
 
 import junit.framework.TestCase;
 
@@ -30,7 +32,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
  */
 public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
 
-    private FileUtils fu;
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
     private File removeThis;
     private String root;
 
@@ -39,7 +41,6 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
     }
 
     public void setUp() {
-        fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
         // Windows adds the drive letter in uppercase, unless you run Cygwin
         root = new File(File.separator).getAbsolutePath().toUpperCase();
     }
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
             fail(ie.getMessage());
         }
 
-        fu.setFileLastModified(removeThis, -1);
+        FILE_UTILS.setFileLastModified(removeThis, -1);
         long secondModTime = removeThis.lastModified();
         assertTrue(secondModTime > modTime);
 
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
         // in a previous version, the date of the file was set to 123456
         // milliseconds since 01.01.1970
         // it did not work on a computer running JDK 1.4.1_02 + Windows 2000
-        fu.setFileLastModified(removeThis, secondModTime + millisperday);
+        FILE_UTILS.setFileLastModified(removeThis, secondModTime + millisperday);
         long thirdModTime = removeThis.lastModified();
         /*
          * I would love to compare this with 123456, but depending on
@@ -104,30 +105,30 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
          * Start with simple absolute file names.
          */
         assertEquals(File.separator,
-                     fu.resolveFile(null, "/").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, "/").getPath());
         assertEquals(File.separator,
-                     fu.resolveFile(null, "\\").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, "\\").getPath());
 
         /*
          * throw in drive letters
          */
         String driveSpec = "C:";
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "/").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "/").getPath());
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "\\").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "\\").getPath());
         String driveSpecLower = "c:";
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpecLower + "/").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpecLower + "/").getPath());
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpecLower + "\\").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpecLower + "\\").getPath());
         /*
          * promised to eliminate consecutive slashes after drive letter.
          */
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "/////").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "/////").getPath());
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "\\\\\\\\\\\\").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "\\\\\\\\\\\\").getPath());
 
         if (Os.isFamily("netware")) {
             /*
@@ -135,45 +136,45 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
              */
             driveSpec = "SYS:";
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "/").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "/").getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "\\").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "\\").getPath());
             driveSpecLower = "sys:";
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpecLower + "/").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpecLower + "/").getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpecLower + "\\").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpecLower + "\\").getPath());
             /*
              * promised to eliminate consecutive slashes after drive letter.
              */
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "/////").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "/////").getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "\\\\\\\\\\\\").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, driveSpec + "\\\\\\\\\\\\").getPath());
         }
 
         /*
          * Now test some relative file name magic.
          */
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "4").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "4").getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "./4").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "./4").getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), ".\\4").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), ".\\4").getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "./.\\4").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "./.\\4").getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "../3/4").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "../3/4").getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "..\\3\\4").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "..\\3\\4").getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "../../5/.././2/./3/6/../4").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "../../5/.././2/./3/6/../4").getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "..\\../5/..\\./2/./3/6\\../4").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1/2/3")), "..\\../5/..\\./2/./3/6\\../4").getPath());
 
         try {
-            fu.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1")), "../../b");
+            FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(new File(localize("/1")), "../../b");
             fail("successfully crawled beyond the filesystem root");
         } catch (BuildException e) {
             // Expected Exception caught
@@ -186,32 +187,32 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
          * Start with simple absolute file names.
          */
         assertEquals(File.separator,
-                     fu.normalize("/").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize("/").getPath());
         assertEquals(File.separator,
-                     fu.normalize("\\").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize("\\").getPath());
 
         /*
          * throw in drive letters
          */
         String driveSpec = "C:";
         assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                     fu.normalize(driveSpec).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec).getPath());
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.normalize(driveSpec + "/").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec + "/").getPath());
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.normalize(driveSpec + "\\").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec + "\\").getPath());
         String driveSpecLower = "c:";
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.normalize(driveSpecLower + "/").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpecLower + "/").getPath());
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.normalize(driveSpecLower + "\\").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpecLower + "\\").getPath());
         /*
          * promised to eliminate consecutive slashes after drive letter.
          */
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.normalize(driveSpec + "/////").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec + "/////").getPath());
         assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\",
-                     fu.normalize(driveSpec + "\\\\\\\\\\\\").getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec + "\\\\\\\\\\\\").getPath());
 
         if (Os.isFamily("netware")) {
             /*
@@ -219,58 +220,58 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
              */
             driveSpec = "SYS:";
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpec).getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec).getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpec + "/").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec + "/").getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpec + "\\").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec + "\\").getPath());
             driveSpecLower = "sys:";
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpecLower).getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpecLower).getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpecLower + "/").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpecLower + "/").getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpecLower + "\\").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpecLower + "\\").getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec + "\\junk",
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpecLower + "\\junk").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpecLower + "\\junk").getPath());
             /*
              * promised to eliminate consecutive slashes after drive letter.
              */
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpec + "/////").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec + "/////").getPath());
             assertEquals(driveSpec,
-                         fu.normalize(driveSpec + "\\\\\\\\\\\\").getPath());
+                         FILE_UTILS.normalize(driveSpec + "\\\\\\\\\\\\").getPath());
         }
 
         /*
          * Now test some relative file name magic.
          */
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/4")).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/4")).getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/./4")).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/./4")).getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/.\\4")).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/.\\4")).getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/./.\\4")).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/./.\\4")).getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/../3/4")).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/../3/4")).getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/..\\3\\4")).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/..\\3\\4")).getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/../../5/.././2/./3/6/../4")).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/../../5/.././2/./3/6/../4")).getPath());
         assertEquals(localize("/1/2/3/4"),
-                     fu.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/..\\../5/..\\./2/./3/6\\../4")).getPath());
+                     FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/2/3/..\\../5/..\\./2/./3/6\\../4")).getPath());
 
         try {
-            fu.normalize("foo");
+            FILE_UTILS.normalize("foo");
             fail("foo is not an absolute path");
         } catch (BuildException e) {
             // Expected exception caught
         }
 
         try {
-            fu.normalize(localize("/1/../../b"));
+            FILE_UTILS.normalize(localize("/1/../../b"));
             fail("successfully crawled beyond the filesystem root");
         } catch (BuildException e) {
             // Expected exception caught
@@ -282,13 +283,13 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
      */
     public void testNullArgs() {
         try {
-            fu.normalize(null);
+            FILE_UTILS.normalize(null);
             fail("successfully normalized a null-file");
         } catch (NullPointerException npe) {
             // Expected exception caught
         }
 
-        File f = fu.resolveFile(null, "a");
+        File f = FILE_UTILS.resolveFile(null, "a");
         assertEquals(f, new File("a"));
     }
 
@@ -297,7 +298,7 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
      */
     public void testCreateTempFile() {
         File parent = new File((new File("/tmp")).getAbsolutePath());
-        File tmp1 = fu.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", parent);
+        File tmp1 = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", parent);
         assertTrue("new file", !tmp1.exists());
 
         String name = tmp1.getName();
@@ -307,12 +308,12 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
                      parent.getAbsolutePath(),
                      tmp1.getParent());
 
-        File tmp2 = fu.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", parent);
+        File tmp2 = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", parent);
         assertTrue("files are different",
                    !tmp1.getAbsolutePath().equals(tmp2.getAbsolutePath()));
 
         // null parent dir
-        File tmp3 = fu.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", null);
+        File tmp3 = FILE_UTILS.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", null);
         String  tmploc = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
         assertEquals((new File(tmploc, tmp3.getName())).getAbsolutePath(),
                      tmp3.getAbsolutePath());
@@ -322,17 +323,17 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
      * Test contentEquals
      */
     public void testContentEquals() throws IOException {
-        assertTrue("Non existing files", fu.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "foo"),
+        assertTrue("Non existing files", FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "foo"),
                                                           new File(System.getProperty("root"), "bar")));
         assertTrue("One exists, the other one doesn\'t",
-                   !fu.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "foo"), new File(System.getProperty("root"), "build.xml")));
+                   !FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "foo"), new File(System.getProperty("root"), "build.xml")));
         assertTrue("Don\'t compare directories",
-                   !fu.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "src"), new File(System.getProperty("root"), "src")));
+                   !FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "src"), new File(System.getProperty("root"), "src")));
         assertTrue("File equals itself",
-                   fu.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "build.xml"),
+                   FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "build.xml"),
                                     new File(System.getProperty("root"), "build.xml")));
         assertTrue("Files are different",
-                   !fu.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "build.xml"),
+                   !FILE_UTILS.contentEquals(new File(System.getProperty("root"), "build.xml"),
                                      new File(System.getProperty("root"), "docs.xml")));
     }
 
@@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
     public void testCreateNewFile() throws IOException {
         removeThis = new File("dummy");
         assertTrue(!removeThis.exists());
-        fu.createNewFile(removeThis);
+        FILE_UTILS.createNewFile(removeThis);
         assertTrue(removeThis.exists());
     }
 
@@ -350,43 +351,43 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
      * Test removeLeadingPath.
      */
     public void testRemoveLeadingPath() {
-        assertEquals("bar", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo"),
+        assertEquals("bar", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo"),
                                                  new File("/foo/bar")));
-        assertEquals("bar", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/"),
+        assertEquals("bar", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/"),
                                                  new File("/foo/bar")));
-        assertEquals("bar", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("\\foo"),
+        assertEquals("bar", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("\\foo"),
                                                  new File("\\foo\\bar")));
-        assertEquals("bar", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("\\foo\\"),
+        assertEquals("bar", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("\\foo\\"),
                                                  new File("\\foo\\bar")));
-        assertEquals("bar", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:/foo"),
+        assertEquals("bar", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:/foo"),
                                                  new File("c:/foo/bar")));
-        assertEquals("bar", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:/foo/"),
+        assertEquals("bar", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:/foo/"),
                                                  new File("c:/foo/bar")));
-        assertEquals("bar", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:\\foo"),
+        assertEquals("bar", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:\\foo"),
                                                  new File("c:\\foo\\bar")));
-        assertEquals("bar", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:\\foo\\"),
+        assertEquals("bar", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:\\foo\\"),
                                                  new File("c:\\foo\\bar")));
-        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(fu.normalize("/bar").getAbsolutePath(),
-                     fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo"), new File("/bar")));
-        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(fu.normalize("/foobar").getAbsolutePath(),
-                     fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo"), new File("/foobar")));
+        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(FILE_UTILS.normalize("/bar").getAbsolutePath(),
+                     FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo"), new File("/bar")));
+        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(FILE_UTILS.normalize("/foobar").getAbsolutePath(),
+                     FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo"), new File("/foobar")));
         // bugzilla report 19979
-        assertEquals("", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/bar"),
+        assertEquals("", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/bar"),
                                               new File("/foo/bar")));
-        assertEquals("", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/bar"),
+        assertEquals("", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/bar"),
                                               new File("/foo/bar/")));
-        assertEquals("", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/bar/"),
+        assertEquals("", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/bar/"),
                                               new File("/foo/bar/")));
-        assertEquals("", fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/bar/"),
+        assertEquals("", FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/foo/bar/"),
                                               new File("/foo/bar")));
 
         String expected = "foo/bar".replace('\\', File.separatorChar)
             .replace('/', File.separatorChar);
-        assertEquals(expected, fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("/"),
+        assertEquals(expected, FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("/"),
                                                     new File("/foo/bar")));
-        assertEquals(expected, fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:/"),
+        assertEquals(expected, FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:/"),
                                                     new File("c:/foo/bar")));
-        assertEquals(expected, fu.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:\\"),
+        assertEquals(expected, FILE_UTILS.removeLeadingPath(new File("c:\\"),
                                                     new File("c:\\foo\\bar")));
     }
 
@@ -403,24 +404,24 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
             dosRoot = "";
         }
         if (Os.isFamily("dos")) {
-            assertEquals("file:///C:/foo", fu.toURI("c:\\foo"));
+            assertEquals("file:///C:/foo", FILE_UTILS.toURI("c:\\foo"));
         }
         if (Os.isFamily("netware")) {
-            assertEquals("file:///SYS:/foo", fu.toURI("sys:\\foo"));
+            assertEquals("file:///SYS:/foo", FILE_UTILS.toURI("sys:\\foo"));
         }
-        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo", fu.toURI("/foo"));
+        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo", FILE_UTILS.toURI("/foo"));
         /* May fail if the directory ${user.dir}/foo/ exists
          * (and anyway is the tested behavior actually desirable?):
         assertEquals("file:./foo",  fu.toURI("./foo"));
          */
-        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo", fu.toURI("\\foo"));
+        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo", FILE_UTILS.toURI("\\foo"));
         /* See above:
         assertEquals("file:./foo",  fu.toURI(".\\foo"));
          */
-        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo%20bar", fu.toURI("/foo bar"));
-        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo%20bar", fu.toURI("\\foo bar"));
-        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo%23bar", fu.toURI("/foo#bar"));
-        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo%23bar", fu.toURI("\\foo#bar"));
+        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo%20bar", FILE_UTILS.toURI("/foo bar"));
+        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo%20bar", FILE_UTILS.toURI("\\foo bar"));
+        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo%23bar", FILE_UTILS.toURI("/foo#bar"));
+        assertEquals("file:///" + dosRoot + "foo%23bar", FILE_UTILS.toURI("\\foo#bar"));
     }
 
     /**
@@ -428,16 +429,16 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
      */
     public void testFromURI() {
         if (Os.isFamily("netware")) {
-            assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase("SYS:\\foo", fu.fromURI("file:///sys:/foo"));
+            assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase("SYS:\\foo", FILE_UTILS.fromURI("file:///sys:/foo"));
         }
         if (Os.isFamily("dos")) {
-            assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase("C:\\foo", fu.fromURI("file:///c:/foo"));
+            assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase("C:\\foo", FILE_UTILS.fromURI("file:///c:/foo"));
         }
-        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(localize("/foo"), fu.fromURI("file:///foo"));
+        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(localize("/foo"), FILE_UTILS.fromURI("file:///foo"));
         assertEquals("." + File.separator + "foo",
-                     fu.fromURI("file:./foo"));
-        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(localize("/foo bar"), fu.fromURI("file:///foo%20bar"));
-        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(localize("/foo#bar"), fu.fromURI("file:///foo%23bar"));
+                     FILE_UTILS.fromURI("file:./foo"));
+        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(localize("/foo bar"), FILE_UTILS.fromURI("file:///foo%20bar"));
+        assertEqualsIgnoreDriveCase(localize("/foo#bar"), FILE_UTILS.fromURI("file:///foo%23bar"));
     }
 
     public void testModificationTests() {
@@ -453,13 +454,13 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
 
         //check that older is up to date with a newer dest
         assertTrue("older source files are up to date",
-                fu.isUpToDate(firstTime,secondTime));
+                FILE_UTILS.isUpToDate(firstTime,secondTime));
         //check that older is up to date with a newer dest
         assertFalse("newer source files are no up to date",
-                fu.isUpToDate(secondTime, firstTime));
+                FILE_UTILS.isUpToDate(secondTime, firstTime));
 
         assertTrue("-1 dest timestamp implies nonexistence",
-                !fu.isUpToDate(firstTime,-1L));
+                !FILE_UTILS.isUpToDate(firstTime,-1L));
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JavaEnvUtilsTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JavaEnvUtilsTest.java
index 3f69ea7fd..f80a9b0b4 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JavaEnvUtilsTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/JavaEnvUtilsTest.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright  2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation
+ * Copyright  2002-2005 The Apache Software Foundation
  *
  *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  *  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
  *
  */
 public class JavaEnvUtilsTest extends TestCase {
+
+    private static final FileUtils FILE_UTILS = FileUtils.getFileUtils();
+
     public JavaEnvUtilsTest(String s) {
         super(s);
     }
@@ -43,9 +46,8 @@ public class JavaEnvUtilsTest extends TestCase {
 
     public void testGetExecutableWindows() {
         if (Os.isFamily("windows")) {
-            FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
             String javaHome =
-                fileUtils.normalize(System.getProperty("java.home"))
+                FILE_UTILS.normalize(System.getProperty("java.home"))
                 .getAbsolutePath();
 
             String j = JavaEnvUtils.getJreExecutable("java");
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ public class JavaEnvUtilsTest extends TestCase {
             try {
                 assertTrue(j+" is absolute", (new File(j)).isAbsolute());
                 String javaHomeParent =
-                    fileUtils.normalize(javaHome+"/..").getAbsolutePath();
+                    FILE_UTILS.normalize(javaHome+"/..").getAbsolutePath();
                 assertTrue(j+" is normalized and in the JDK dir",
                            j.startsWith(javaHomeParent));
 
@@ -89,9 +91,8 @@ public class JavaEnvUtilsTest extends TestCase {
 
     public void testGetExecutableMostPlatforms() {
         if (!Os.isName("netware") && !Os.isFamily("windows")) {
-            FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
             String javaHome =
-                fileUtils.normalize(System.getProperty("java.home"))
+                FILE_UTILS.normalize(System.getProperty("java.home"))
                 .getAbsolutePath();
 
             // could still be OS/2
@@ -112,7 +113,7 @@ public class JavaEnvUtilsTest extends TestCase {
             assertTrue(j+" is absolute", (new File(j)).isAbsolute());
 
             String javaHomeParent =
-                fileUtils.normalize(javaHome+"/..").getAbsolutePath();
+                FILE_UTILS.normalize(javaHome+"/..").getAbsolutePath();
             assertTrue(j+" is normalized and in the JDK dir",
                        j.startsWith(javaHomeParent));