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 <p>
 <strong>Note #2: </strong>If a JDK is not present, only the JRE runtime, then many tasks will not work.
 </p>
+
+<h3>Open Source Java Runtimes</h3>
+<p>
+    The Ant team strongly supports users running Ant on Kaffe and other
+    open source Java runtimes, and so strives to have a product that works
+    well on those platforms. What appears to work well is Kaffe with 
+    Gnu Classpath and the Xerces and Xalan libraries. 
+</p>
+
 <hr>
 <h2><a name="installing">Installing Ant</a></h2>
 <p>The binary distribution of Ant consists of the following directory layout: