diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
index 63c68e12f..53522c5ef 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/FixCRLF.java
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.EnumeratedAttribute;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
@@ -65,7 +66,6 @@ import java.io.FileReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
-import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
 
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
     private File srcDir;
     private File destDir = null;
 
+    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Defaults the properties based on the system type.
      * <ul><li>Unix: eol="LF" tab="asis" eof="remove"
@@ -355,19 +357,6 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
         }
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Creates a temporary file.
-     */
-    private File createTempFile() {
-        String name = "fixcrlf" 
-            + (new Random(System.currentTimeMillis())).nextLong();
-        if (destDir == null) {
-            return new File(srcDir, name);
-        } else {
-            return new File(destDir, name);
-        }
-    }
-
     /**
      * Checks for the inequality of two files
      */
@@ -413,6 +402,7 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
 
     private void processFile(String file) throws BuildException {
         File srcFile = new File(srcDir, file);
+        File destD = destDir == null ? srcDir : destDir;
         File tmpFile = null;
         BufferedWriter outWriter;
         OneLiner.BufferLine line;
@@ -423,7 +413,7 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
         try {
             // Set up the output Writer
             try {
-                tmpFile = createTempFile();
+                tmpFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("fixcrlf", "", destD);
                 FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(tmpFile);
                 outWriter = new BufferedWriter(writer);
             } catch (IOException e) {
@@ -554,8 +544,7 @@ public class FixCRLF extends MatchingTask {
                 throw new BuildException(e);
             } // end of try-catch
             
-            File destFile = new File(destDir == null ? srcDir : destDir,
-                                     file);
+            File destFile = new File(destD, file);
 
             try {                                            
                 lines.close();
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javadoc.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javadoc.java
index 9e6f00979..5d588d661 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javadoc.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Javadoc.java
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ import java.io.FilenameFilter;
 import java.util.Vector;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 import java.util.StringTokenizer;
-import java.util.Random;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
@@ -73,6 +72,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Reference;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.EnumeratedAttribute;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Commandline;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 /**
  * This task makes it easy to generate Javadoc documentation for a collection
@@ -279,6 +279,8 @@ public class Javadoc extends Task {
     private boolean useExternalFile = false;
     private File tmpList = null;
 
+    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * Work around command line length limit by using an external file
      * for the sourcefiles.
@@ -924,7 +926,7 @@ public class Javadoc extends Task {
                  */
                 if (useExternalFile) {
                     if (tmpList == null) {
-                        tmpList = createTempFile();
+                        tmpList = fileUtils.createTempFile("javadoc", "", null);
                         toExecute.createArgument().setValue("@" + tmpList.getAbsolutePath());
                     }
                     srcListWriter = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(tmpList.getAbsolutePath(), 
@@ -1055,7 +1057,7 @@ public class Javadoc extends Task {
         PrintWriter packageListWriter = null;
         try {
             if (useExternalFile) {
-                tmpList = createTempFile();
+                tmpList = fileUtils.createTempFile("javadoc", "", null);
                 toExecute.createArgument().setValue("@" + tmpList.getAbsolutePath());
                 packageListWriter = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(tmpList));
             }
@@ -1148,13 +1150,6 @@ public class Javadoc extends Task {
                                                project.getProperties());
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Creates a temporary file.
-     */
-    private File createTempFile() {
-        return new File("javadoc" + (new Random(System.currentTimeMillis())).nextLong());
-    }
-
     private String getJavadocExecutableName()
     {
         // This is the most common extension case - exe for windows and OS/2, 
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 61f733be1..63759ea8c 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers/DefaultCompilerAdapter.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/compilers/DefaultCompilerAdapter.java
@@ -63,12 +63,12 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.LogStreamHandler;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Commandline;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.PrintWriter;
 import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Random;
 
 /**
  * This is the default implementation for the CompilerAdapter interface.
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ public abstract class DefaultCompilerAdapter implements CompilerAdapter {
     protected static String lSep = System.getProperty("line.separator");
     protected Javac attributes;
 
+    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+
     public void setJavac( Javac attributes ) {
         this.attributes = attributes;
         src = attributes.getSrcdir();
@@ -362,7 +364,7 @@ public abstract class DefaultCompilerAdapter implements CompilerAdapter {
             if (Commandline.toString(args).length() > 4096) {
                 PrintWriter out = null;
                 try {
-                    tmpFile = new File("jikes"+(new Random(System.currentTimeMillis())).nextLong());
+                    tmpFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("jikes", "", null);
                     out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(tmpFile));
                     for (int i = firstFileName; i < args.length; i++) {
                         out.println(args[i]);
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 127d4c5ab..02ae4312a 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/Cab.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/Cab.java
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.condition.Os;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Commandline;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
@@ -71,7 +72,6 @@ import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 
 import java.util.Vector;
-import java.util.Random;
 import java.text.DecimalFormat;
 
 /**
@@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ public class Cab extends MatchingTask {
 
     private static String myos;
 
+    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+
     /**
      * This is the name/location of where to 
      * create the .cab file.
@@ -213,27 +215,6 @@ public class Cab extends MatchingTask {
         return command;
     }
 
-    private static int counter = new Random().nextInt() % 100000;
-    protected File createTempFile(String prefix, String suffix)
-    {
-        if (suffix == null)
-        {
-            suffix = ".tmp";
-        }
-
-        String name = prefix +
-            new DecimalFormat("#####").format(new Integer(counter++)) +
-            suffix;
-
-        String tmpdir = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
-
-        // java.io.tmpdir is not present in 1.1
-        if (tmpdir == null)
-            return new File(name);
-        else
-            return new File(tmpdir, name);
-    }
-
     /**
      * Creates a list file.  This temporary file contains a list of all files
      * to be included in the cab, one file per line.
@@ -241,7 +222,7 @@ public class Cab extends MatchingTask {
     protected File createListFile(Vector files)
         throws IOException
     {
-        File listFile = createTempFile("ant", null);
+        File listFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("ant", "", null);
         
         PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(listFile));
 
@@ -342,7 +323,7 @@ public class Cab extends MatchingTask {
                 exec.setDir(baseDir);
                 
                 if (!doVerbose) {
-                    outFile = createTempFile("ant", null);
+                    outFile = fileUtils.createTempFile("ant", "", null);
                     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 14ae31ff4..bcdfb6c3a 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExp.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/ReplaceRegExp.java
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.util.regexp.Regexp;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.RegularExpression;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Substitution;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
+import org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -162,6 +163,8 @@ public class ReplaceRegExp extends Task
     private RegularExpression regex;
     private Substitution subs;
 
+    private FileUtils fileUtils = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
+
     /***
      * Default Constructor
      */
@@ -260,7 +263,7 @@ public class ReplaceRegExp extends Task
         throws IOException
     {
         File parentDir = new File(new File(f.getAbsolutePath()).getParent());
-        File temp = createTempFile(parentDir);
+        File temp = fileUtils.createTempFile("replace", ".txt", parentDir);
 
         FileReader r = null;
         FileWriter w = null;
@@ -420,13 +423,6 @@ public class ReplaceRegExp extends Task
         }
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Creates a temporary file.
-     */
-    private File createTempFile(File dir) {
-        return new File(dir, "replace" + (new Random(System.currentTimeMillis())).nextLong()+".txt");
-    }
-
 }
 
 
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
index ad5867f26..560f008bb 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtils.java
@@ -63,8 +63,10 @@ import java.io.FileWriter;
 import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
-import java.util.StringTokenizer;
+import java.text.DecimalFormat;
+import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.Stack;
+import java.util.StringTokenizer;
 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException; 
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project; 
@@ -79,9 +81,12 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FilterSetCollection;
  * @author duncan@x180.com
  * @author <a href="mailto:conor@apache.org">Conor MacNeill</a>
  * @author <a href="mailto:stefan.bodewig@epost.de">Stefan Bodewig</a> 
+ *
+ * @version $Revision$
  */
  
 public class FileUtils {
+    private static Random rand = new Random(System.currentTimeMillis());
     private static Object lockReflection = new Object();
     private static java.lang.reflect.Method setLastModified = null;
 
@@ -467,5 +472,37 @@ public class FileUtils {
         }
         return new File(path);
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a temporary file in a given directory.
+     *
+     * <p>The file denoted by the returned abstract pathname did not
+     * exist before this method was invoked, any subsequent invocation
+     * of this method will yield a different file name.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>This method is different to File.createTempFile of JDK 1.2
+     * as it doesn't create the file itself and doesn't use platform
+     * specific temporary directory when the parentDir attribute is
+     * null.</p>
+     *
+     * @param parentDir Directory to create the temporary file in -
+     * current working directory will be assumed if this parameter is
+     * null.
+     *
+     * @since 1.8
+     */
+    public File createTempFile(String prefix, String suffix, File parentDir) {
+
+        File result = null;
+        DecimalFormat fmt = new DecimalFormat("#####");
+        synchronized (rand) {
+            do {
+                result = new File(parentDir, 
+                                  prefix + fmt.format(rand.nextInt()) 
+                                  + suffix);
+            } while (result.exists());
+        }
+        return result;
+    }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtilsTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtilsTest.java
index 4da6fcbb8..8227c973a 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtilsTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/util/FileUtilsTest.java
@@ -273,6 +273,31 @@ public class FileUtilsTest extends TestCase {
         assertEquals(f, new File("a"));
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Test createTempFile
+     */
+    public void testCreateTempFile() {
+        File parent = new File((new File("/tmp")).getAbsolutePath());
+        File tmp1 = fu.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", parent);
+        assertTrue("new file", !tmp1.exists());
+
+        String name = tmp1.getName();
+        assertTrue("starts with pre", name.startsWith("pre"));
+        assertTrue("ends with .suf", name.endsWith(".suf"));
+        assertEquals("is inside parent dir", 
+                     parent.getAbsolutePath(),
+                     tmp1.getParent());
+
+        File tmp2 = fu.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", parent);
+        assertTrue("files are different", 
+                   !tmp1.getAbsolutePath().equals(tmp2.getAbsolutePath()));
+
+        // null parent dir
+        File tmp3 = fu.createTempFile("pre", ".suf", null);
+        assertEquals((new File(tmp3.getName())).getAbsolutePath(),
+                     tmp3.getAbsolutePath());
+    }
+
     /**
      * adapt file separators to local conventions
      */