diff --git a/docs/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html b/docs/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html
index 2001d4f7b..89f26ad4a 100644
--- a/docs/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html
+++ b/docs/manual/CoreTypes/filterchain.html
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ nested elements.<BR>
 <a href="#tabstospaces">TabsToSpaces</a><BR>
 <a href="#tailfilter">TailFilter</a><BR>
 <a href="#deletecharacters">DeleteCharacters</a><BR>
+<a href="#concatfilter">ConcatFilter</a><BR>
 <a href="#tokenfilter">TokenFilter</a><BR>
 
 <H3><a name="filterreader">FilterReader</a></H3>
@@ -818,6 +819,49 @@ Delete tabs and returns from the data.
 &lt;deletecharacters chars="\t\r"/&gt;
 </PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
 
+<H3><a name="concatfilter">ConcatFilter</a></H3>
+  <p>This filter prepends or appends the content file to the filtered files.</p>
+  <p><em>since Ant 1.6</em></p>
+<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=1>
+  <TR>
+    <TD vAlign=top><B>Parameter Name</B></TD>
+    <TD vAlign=top><B>Parameter Value</B></TD>
+    <TD vAlign=top align="center"><B>Required</B></TD>
+  </TR>
+  <TR>
+    <TD vAlign=top>prepend</TD>
+    <TD vAlign=top>
+      The name of the file which content should be prepended to the file.
+    </TD>
+    <TD vAlign=top align="center">No</TD>
+  </TR>
+  <TR>
+    <TD vAlign=top>append</TD>
+    <TD vAlign=top>
+      The name of the file which content should be appended to the file.
+    </TD>
+    <TD vAlign=top align="center">No</TD>
+  </TR>
+</TABLE>
+<P>
+
+<H4>Examples:</H4>
+
+Do nothing:
+<BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>
+&lt;filterchain&gt;
+    &lt;concatfilter/&gt;
+&lt;/filterchain&gt;
+</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+
+Adds a license text before each java source:
+<BLOCKQUOTE><PRE>
+&lt;filterchain&gt;
+    &lt;concatfilter prepend="apache-license-java.txt"/&gt;
+&lt;/filterchain&gt;
+</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE>
+
+
 
 <H3><a name="tokenfilter">TokenFilter</a></H3>
 This filter tokenizes the inputstream into strings and passes these
@@ -1293,4 +1337,4 @@ This may be used as follows:
 <HR>
 
 <P align=center>Copyright &copy; 2002-2003 Apache Software Foundation. All rights
-Reserved.</P></BODY></HTML>
+Reserved.</P></BODY></HTML>
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diff --git a/src/etc/testcases/filters/concat.xml b/src/etc/testcases/filters/concat.xml
index d631fd674..4fe195166 100644
--- a/src/etc/testcases/filters/concat.xml
+++ b/src/etc/testcases/filters/concat.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 
   <target name="init">
     <mkdir dir="result" />
-    <echo file="result/before.txt" message="this-should-be-the-first-line${line.separator}"/>
-    <echo file="result/after.txt" message="this-should-be-the-last-line${line.separator}"/>
+    <echo file="result/prepend.txt" message="this-should-be-the-first-line${line.separator}"/>
+    <echo file="result/append.txt" message="this-should-be-the-last-line${line.separator}"/>
     <copy file="input/head-tail.test" tofile="input/concatfilter.test"/>
     <fixcrlf srcDir="input" includes="concatfilter.test"/>
   </target>
@@ -26,35 +26,35 @@
     </copy>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="testFilterReaderBefore" depends="init">
+  <target name="testFilterReaderPrepend" depends="init">
     <copy file="input/concatfilter.test"
-          tofile="result/concat.filterReaderBefore.test">
+          tofile="result/concat.filterReaderPrepend.test">
       <filterchain>
         <filterreader classname="org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ConcatFilter">
-          <param name="before" value="result/before.txt"/>
+          <param name="prepend" value="result/prepend.txt"/>
         </filterreader>
       </filterchain>
     </copy>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="testFilterReaderAfter" depends="init">
+  <target name="testFilterReaderAppend" depends="init">
     <copy file="input/concatfilter.test"
-          tofile="result/concat.filterReaderAfter.test">
+          tofile="result/concat.filterReaderAppend.test">
       <filterchain>
         <filterreader classname="org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ConcatFilter">
-          <param name="after" value="result/after.txt"/>
+          <param name="append" value="result/append.txt"/>
         </filterreader>
       </filterchain>
     </copy>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="testFilterReaderBeforeAfter" depends="init">
+  <target name="testFilterReaderPrependAppend" depends="init">
     <copy file="input/concatfilter.test"
-          tofile="result/concat.filterReaderBeforeAfter.test">
+          tofile="result/concat.filterReaderPrependAppend.test">
       <filterchain>
         <filterreader classname="org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ConcatFilter">
-          <param name="before" value="result/before.txt"/>
-          <param name="after"  value="result/after.txt"/>
+          <param name="prepend" value="result/prepend.txt"/>
+          <param name="append"  value="result/append.txt"/>
         </filterreader>
       </filterchain>
     </copy>
@@ -70,32 +70,32 @@
     </copy>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="testConcatFilterBefore" depends="init">
+  <target name="testConcatFilterPrepend" depends="init">
     <typedef name="concatfilter" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ConcatFilter"/>
     <copy file="input/concatfilter.test"
-          tofile="result/concat.concatfilterBefore.test">
+          tofile="result/concat.concatfilterPrepend.test">
       <filterchain>
-        <concatfilter before="result/before.txt"/>
+        <concatfilter prepend="result/prepend.txt"/>
       </filterchain>
     </copy>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="testConcatFilterAfter" depends="init">
+  <target name="testConcatFilterAppend" depends="init">
     <typedef name="concatfilter" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ConcatFilter"/>
     <copy file="input/concatfilter.test"
-          tofile="result/concat.concatfilterAfter.test">
+          tofile="result/concat.concatfilterAppend.test">
       <filterchain>
-        <concatfilter after="result/after.txt"/>
+        <concatfilter append="result/append.txt"/>
       </filterchain>
     </copy>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="testConcatFilterBeforeAfter" depends="init">
+  <target name="testConcatFilterPrependAppend" depends="init">
     <typedef name="concatfilter" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.filters.ConcatFilter"/>
     <copy file="input/concatfilter.test"
-          tofile="result/concat.concatfilterBeforeAfter.test">
+          tofile="result/concat.concatfilterPrependAppend.test">
       <filterchain>
-        <concatfilter before="result/before.txt" after="result/after.txt"/>
+        <concatfilter prepend="result/prepend.txt" append="result/append.txt"/>
       </filterchain>
     </copy>
   </target>
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilter.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilter.java
index c50e47967..87d9809c0 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilter.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilter.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Parameter;
  * <copy todir="build">
  *     <fileset dir="src" includes="*.java"/>
  *     <filterchain>
- *         <concatfilter before="apache-license-java.txt"/>
+ *         <concatfilter prepend="apache-license-java.txt"/>
  *     </filterchain>
  * </copy>
  * </pre>
@@ -83,16 +83,16 @@ public final class ConcatFilter extends BaseParamFilterReader
     implements ChainableReader {
 
     /** File to add before the content. */
-    private File before;
+    private File prepend;
 
     /** File to add after the content. */
-    private File after;
+    private File append;
 
-    /** Reader for before-file. */
-    private Reader beforeReader = new EmptyReader();
+    /** Reader for prepend-file. */
+    private Reader prependReader = new EmptyReader();
 
-    /** Reader for after-file. */
-    private Reader afterReader = new EmptyReader();
+    /** Reader for append-file. */
+    private Reader appendReader = new EmptyReader();
 
     /**
      * Constructor for "dummy" instances.
@@ -134,49 +134,49 @@ public final class ConcatFilter extends BaseParamFilterReader
 
         int ch = -1;
 
-        // The readers return -1 if they end. So simply read the "before"
-        // after that the "content" and at the end the "after" file.
-        ch = beforeReader.read();
+        // The readers return -1 if they end. So simply read the "prepend"
+        // after that the "content" and at the end the "append" file.
+        ch = prependReader.read();
         if (ch == -1) {
             ch = super.read();
         }
         if (ch == -1) {
-            ch = afterReader.read();
+            ch = appendReader.read();
         }
 
         return ch;
     }
 
     /**
-     * Sets <i>before</i> attribute.
-     * @param before new value
+     * Sets <i>prepend</i> attribute.
+     * @param prepend new value
      */
-    public void setBefore(final File before) {
-        this.before = before;
+    public void setPrepend(final File prepend) {
+        this.prepend = prepend;
     }
 
     /**
-     * Returns <i>before</i> attribute.
-     * @return before attribute
+     * Returns <i>prepend</i> attribute.
+     * @return prepend attribute
      */
-    public File getBefore() {
-        return before;
+    public File getPrepend() {
+        return prepend;
     }
 
     /**
-     * Sets <i>after</i> attribute.
-     * @param after new value
+     * Sets <i>append</i> attribute.
+     * @param append new value
      */
-    public void setAfter(final File after) {
-        this.after = after;
+    public void setAppend(final File append) {
+        this.append = append;
     }
 
     /**
-     * Returns <i>after</i> attribute.
-     * @return after attribute
+     * Returns <i>append</i> attribute.
+     * @return append attribute
      */
-    public File getAfter() {
-        return after;
+    public File getAppend() {
+        return append;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -191,10 +191,10 @@ public final class ConcatFilter extends BaseParamFilterReader
      */
     public Reader chain(final Reader rdr) {
         ConcatFilter newFilter = new ConcatFilter(rdr);
-        newFilter.setBefore(getBefore());
-        newFilter.setAfter(getAfter());
+        newFilter.setPrepend(getPrepend());
+        newFilter.setAppend(getAppend());
         // Usually the initialized is set to true. But here it must not.
-        // Because the before and after readers have to be instantiated
+        // Because the prepend and append readers have to be instantiated
         // on runtime
         //newFilter.setInitialized(true);
         return newFilter;
@@ -210,27 +210,27 @@ public final class ConcatFilter extends BaseParamFilterReader
         Parameter[] params = getParameters();
         if (params != null) {
             for (int i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
-                if ("before".equals(params[i].getName())) {
-                    setBefore(new File(params[i].getValue()));
+                if ("prepend".equals(params[i].getName())) {
+                    setPrepend(new File(params[i].getValue()));
                     continue;
                 }
-                if ("after".equals(params[i].getName())) {
-                    setAfter(new File(params[i].getValue()));
+                if ("append".equals(params[i].getName())) {
+                    setAppend(new File(params[i].getValue()));
                     continue;
                 }
             }
         }
-        if (before != null) {
-            if (!before.isAbsolute()) {
-                before = new File(getProject().getBaseDir(), before.getPath());
+        if (prepend != null) {
+            if (!prepend.isAbsolute()) {
+                prepend = new File(getProject().getBaseDir(), prepend.getPath());
             }
-            beforeReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(before));
+            prependReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(prepend));
         }
-        if (after != null) {
-            if (!after.isAbsolute()) {
-                after = new File(getProject().getBaseDir(), after.getPath());
+        if (append != null) {
+            if (!append.isAbsolute()) {
+                append = new File(getProject().getBaseDir(), append.getPath());
             }
-            afterReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(after));
+            appendReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(append));
         }
    }
 
diff --git a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilterTest.java b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilterTest.java
index 15d7be6b1..c97b68a27 100644
--- a/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilterTest.java
+++ b/src/testcases/org/apache/tools/ant/filters/ConcatFilterTest.java
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public class ConcatFilterTest extends BuildFileTest {
     private static FileUtils fu = FileUtils.newFileUtils();
     private static final String lSep = System.getProperty("line.separator");
 
-    private static final String FILE_BEGINNING_WITH =
+    private static final String FILE_PREPEND_WITH =
           "this-should-be-the-first-line" + lSep
         + "Line  1" + lSep
         + "Line  2" + lSep
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public class ConcatFilterTest extends BuildFileTest {
         + "Line  4" + lSep
     ;
 
-    private static final String FILE_BEGINNING =
+    private static final String FILE_PREPEND =
           "Line  1" + lSep
         + "Line  2" + lSep
         + "Line  3" + lSep
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public class ConcatFilterTest extends BuildFileTest {
         + "Line  5" + lSep
     ;
 
-    private static final String FILE_ENDING_WITH =
+    private static final String FILE_APPEND_WITH =
           "Line 57" + lSep
         + "Line 58" + lSep
         + "Line 59" + lSep
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public class ConcatFilterTest extends BuildFileTest {
         + "this-should-be-the-last-line" + lSep
     ;
 
-    private static final String FILE_ENDING =
+    private static final String FILE_APPEND =
           "Line 56" + lSep
         + "Line 57" + lSep
         + "Line 58" + lSep
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ public class ConcatFilterTest extends BuildFileTest {
 
     public void tearDown() {
         // I dont know why - but on my machine I always get a
-        // "Unable to delete file ...result\after.txt" (or before.txt)
+        // "Unable to delete file ...result\append.txt" (or prepend.txt)
         // from Delete.removeDir(Delete.java:612).
         // Win2000, JDK 1.4.1_02
         // A <sleep> before <delete> doesn´t work. From 10ms to 3000ms.
@@ -137,59 +137,59 @@ public class ConcatFilterTest extends BuildFileTest {
     }
 
     public void testFilterReaderBefore() throws IOException {
-        executeTarget("testFilterReaderBefore");
-        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.filterReaderBefore.test");
+        executeTarget("testFilterReaderPrepend");
+        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.filterReaderPrepend.test");
         String resultContent = fu.readFully(new java.io.FileReader(resultFile));
-        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_BEGINNING_WITH));
-        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_ENDING));
+        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_PREPEND_WITH));
+        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_APPEND));
     }
 
     public void testFilterReaderAfter() throws IOException {
-        executeTarget("testFilterReaderAfter");
-        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.filterReaderAfter.test");
+        executeTarget("testFilterReaderAppend");
+        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.filterReaderAppend.test");
         String resultContent = fu.readFully(new java.io.FileReader(resultFile));
-        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_BEGINNING));
-        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_ENDING_WITH));
+        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_PREPEND));
+        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_APPEND_WITH));
     }
 
     public void testFilterReaderBeforeAfter() throws IOException {
-        executeTarget("testFilterReaderBeforeAfter");
-        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.filterReaderBeforeAfter.test");
+        executeTarget("testFilterReaderPrependAppend");
+        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.filterReaderPrependAppend.test");
         String resultContent = fu.readFully(new java.io.FileReader(resultFile));
-        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_BEGINNING_WITH));
-        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_ENDING_WITH));
+        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_PREPEND_WITH));
+        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_APPEND_WITH));
     }
 
     public void testConcatFilter() throws IOException {
         executeTarget("testConcatFilter");
         File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.concatfilter.test");
         String resultContent = fu.readFully(new java.io.FileReader(resultFile));
-        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_BEGINNING));
-        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_ENDING));
+        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_PREPEND));
+        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_APPEND));
     }
 
     public void testConcatFilterBefore() throws IOException {
-        executeTarget("testConcatFilterBefore");
-        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.concatfilterBefore.test");
+        executeTarget("testConcatFilterPrepend");
+        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.concatfilterPrepend.test");
         String resultContent = fu.readFully(new java.io.FileReader(resultFile));
-        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_BEGINNING_WITH));
-        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_ENDING));
+        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_PREPEND_WITH));
+        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_APPEND));
     }
 
     public void testConcatFilterAfter() throws IOException {
-        executeTarget("testConcatFilterAfter");
-        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.concatfilterAfter.test");
+        executeTarget("testConcatFilterAppend");
+        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.concatfilterAppend.test");
         String resultContent = fu.readFully(new java.io.FileReader(resultFile));
-        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_BEGINNING));
-        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_ENDING_WITH));
+        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_PREPEND));
+        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_APPEND_WITH));
     }
 
     public void testConcatFilterBeforeAfter() throws IOException {
-        executeTarget("testConcatFilterBeforeAfter");
-        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.concatfilterBeforeAfter.test");
+        executeTarget("testConcatFilterPrependAppend");
+        File resultFile = getProject().resolveFile("result/concat.concatfilterPrependAppend.test");
         String resultContent = fu.readFully(new java.io.FileReader(resultFile));
-        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_BEGINNING_WITH));
-        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_ENDING_WITH));
+        assertTrue("First 5 lines differs.", resultContent.startsWith(FILE_PREPEND_WITH));
+        assertTrue("Last 5 lines differs.", resultContent.endsWith(FILE_APPEND_WITH));
     }
 
 }
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