diff --git a/proposal/mutant/build.xml b/proposal/mutant/build.xml
index 0db43c459..960e22f66 100644
--- a/proposal/mutant/build.xml
+++ b/proposal/mutant/build.xml
@@ -77,14 +77,14 @@
 
   <target name="cli" depends="antcore, start">
     <mkdir dir="${bin.dir}/cli"/>
-    <mkdir dir="${distlib.dir}/cli"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${distlib.dir}/frontend"/>
     <depend destdir="${bin.dir}/cli" srcdir="${java.dir}/cli">
       <classpath refid="classpath.cli"/>
     </depend>
     <javac destdir="${bin.dir}/cli" srcdir="${java.dir}/cli" debug="${debug}">
       <classpath refid="classpath.cli"/>
     </javac>
-    <jar basedir="${bin.dir}/cli" jarfile="${distlib.dir}/cli/cli.jar"/>
+    <jar basedir="${bin.dir}/cli" jarfile="${distlib.dir}/frontend/cli.jar"/>
   </target>
 
   <target name="start" depends="init">
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
     <mkdir dir="${javadocs.dir}"/>
     <javadoc packagenames="org.apache.*"
              useexternalfile="yes"
-             sourcepath="${java.dir}/antcore:${java.dir}/init:${java.dir}/common:${java.dir}/cli:${java.dir}/start"
+             sourcepath="${java.dir}/antcore:${java.dir}/init:${java.dir}/common:${java.dir}/frontend:${java.dir}/start"
              destdir="${javadocs.dir}"
              author="true" 
              private ="true"
diff --git a/proposal/mutant/src/java/bootstrap/org/apache/ant/builder/MutantBuilder.java b/proposal/mutant/src/java/bootstrap/org/apache/ant/builder/MutantBuilder.java
index f1e04c643..8d79b61a0 100644
--- a/proposal/mutant/src/java/bootstrap/org/apache/ant/builder/MutantBuilder.java
+++ b/proposal/mutant/src/java/bootstrap/org/apache/ant/builder/MutantBuilder.java
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ public class MutantBuilder {
     }
     protected void cli(BuildHelper helper) {
         helper.mkdir("${bin.dir}/cli");
-        helper.mkdir("${distlib.dir}/cli");
+        helper.mkdir("${distlib.dir}/frontend");
         helper.javac("${java.dir}/cli", "${bin.dir}/cli", "classpath.cli");
-        helper.jar("${bin.dir}/cli", "${distlib.dir}/cli/cli.jar",
+        helper.jar("${bin.dir}/cli", "${distlib.dir}/frontend/cli.jar",
                    null, null);
     }
     protected void start(BuildHelper helper) {
diff --git a/proposal/mutant/src/java/init/org/apache/ant/init/InitConfig.java b/proposal/mutant/src/java/init/org/apache/ant/init/InitConfig.java
index 17d9f70a2..a6d5f4f83 100755
--- a/proposal/mutant/src/java/init/org/apache/ant/init/InitConfig.java
+++ b/proposal/mutant/src/java/init/org/apache/ant/init/InitConfig.java
@@ -52,9 +52,11 @@
  * <http://www.apache.org/>.
  */
 package org.apache.ant.init;
+import java.io.File;
 
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
-import java.io.File;
+import java.net.URLClassLoader;
 
 /**
  * InitConfig is the initialization configuration created to start Ant. This
@@ -64,6 +66,10 @@ import java.io.File;
  * @created 9 January 2002
  */
 public class InitConfig {
+
+    /** The default name of the jar containing the XML parser */
+    public static final String DEFAULT_PARSER_JAR = "crimson.jar";
+
     /** The system classloader */
     private ClassLoader systemLoader;
 
@@ -107,6 +113,59 @@ public class InitConfig {
     /** The location of the user config file */
     private File userConfigArea;
 
+    /**
+     * XXX Constructor for the InitConfig object
+     *
+     * @exception InitException XXX Description of Exception
+     */
+    public InitConfig() throws InitException {
+        try {
+            URL antLibURL = getAntLibURL();
+            setLibraryURL(antLibURL);
+
+            URL antHome = new URL(antLibURL, "..");
+            setAntHome(antHome);
+            if (antHome.getProtocol().equals("file")) {
+                File systemConfigArea = new File(antHome.getFile(), "conf");
+                setSystemConfigArea(systemConfigArea);
+            }
+            File userConfigArea
+                 = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"), ".ant/conf");
+            setUserConfigArea(userConfigArea);
+
+            // set up the class loaders that will be used when running Ant
+            ClassLoader systemLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
+            setSystemLoader(systemLoader);
+            URL toolsJarURL = ClassLocator.getToolsJarURL();
+            setToolsJarURL(toolsJarURL);
+
+            URL commonJarLib = new URL(libraryURL, "common/");
+            ClassLoader commonLoader
+                 = new URLClassLoader(LoaderUtils.getLocationURLs(commonJarLib,
+                "common.jar"), systemLoader);
+            setCommonLoader(commonLoader);
+
+            // core needs XML parser for parsing various XML components.
+            URL parserBase = new URL(libraryURL, "parser/");
+            URL[] parserURLs
+                 = LoaderUtils.getLocationURLs(parserBase, DEFAULT_PARSER_JAR);
+            setParserURLs(parserURLs);
+
+            URL[] coreURLs
+                 = LoaderUtils.getLocationURLs(new URL(libraryURL, "antcore/"),
+                "antcore.jar");
+            URL[] combinedURLs = new URL[parserURLs.length + coreURLs.length];
+            System.arraycopy(coreURLs, 0, combinedURLs, 0, coreURLs.length);
+            System.arraycopy(parserURLs, 0, combinedURLs, coreURLs.length,
+                parserURLs.length);
+            ClassLoader coreLoader = new URLClassLoader(combinedURLs,
+                commonLoader);
+            setCoreLoader(coreLoader);
+        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+            throw new InitException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Sets the location of the user configuration files
      *
@@ -268,5 +327,24 @@ public class InitConfig {
     public URL getLibraryURL() {
         return libraryURL;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Get a URL to the Ant Library directory.
+     *
+     * @return the URL for the Ant library directory
+     * @throws MalformedURLException if there is a problem constructing the 
+     *      library URL
+     */
+    private URL getAntLibURL() throws MalformedURLException {
+        URL initClassURL = ClassLocator.getClassLocationURL(getClass());
+
+        String initURLString = initClassURL.toString();
+        int index = initURLString.lastIndexOf("/");
+        if (index != -1) {
+            initURLString = initURLString.substring(0, index + 1);
+        }
+
+        return  new URL(initURLString);
+    }
 }
 
diff --git a/proposal/mutant/src/java/start/org/apache/ant/start/Main.java b/proposal/mutant/src/java/start/org/apache/ant/start/Main.java
index 60a7c371d..25dc9e524 100755
--- a/proposal/mutant/src/java/start/org/apache/ant/start/Main.java
+++ b/proposal/mutant/src/java/start/org/apache/ant/start/Main.java
@@ -53,16 +53,10 @@
  */
 package org.apache.ant.start;
 
-import java.io.File;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
-import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLClassLoader;
-import org.apache.ant.init.ClassLocator;
-import org.apache.ant.init.InitUtils;
 import org.apache.ant.init.InitConfig;
-import org.apache.ant.init.InitException;
-import org.apache.ant.init.LoaderUtils;
 
 /**
  * This is the main startup class for the command line interface of Ant. It
@@ -76,46 +70,10 @@ public class Main {
     public static final String COMMANDLINE_CLASS
          = "org.apache.ant.cli.Commandline";
 
-
-    /**
-     * Get a URL to the Ant Library directory.
-     *
-     * @return the URL for the Ant library directory
-     * @throws InitException if there is a problem constructing the library
-     *      URL
-     */
-    public static URL getLibraryURL()
-         throws InitException {
-        try {
-            URL cliURL = ClassLocator.getClassLocationURL(Main.class);
-
-            if (cliURL.getProtocol().equals("file")
-                 && cliURL.getFile().endsWith("/")) {
-                // we are running from a set of classes. This should only
-                // happen in an Ant build situation. We use some embedded
-                // knowledge to locate the lib directory
-                File classesDirectory = new File(cliURL.getFile());
-                File libDirectory = new File(classesDirectory.getParent(),
-                    "lib");
-                if (!libDirectory.exists()) {
-                    throw new RuntimeException("Ant library directory "
-                         + libDirectory + " does not exist");
-                }
-                return InitUtils.getFileURL(libDirectory);
-            } else {
-                String cliURLString = cliURL.toString();
-                int index = cliURLString.lastIndexOf("/");
-                if (index != -1) {
-                    cliURLString = cliURLString.substring(0, index + 1);
-                }
-                return new URL(cliURLString);
-            }
-        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
-            throw new InitException(e);
-        }
-    }
-
-
+         
+    /** The default front end name */
+    public static final String DEFAULT_FRONTEND = "cli";
+         
     /**
      * Entry point for starting command line Ant
      *
@@ -123,92 +81,27 @@ public class Main {
      */
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         Main main = new Main();
-        main.start(args);
+        main.start(DEFAULT_FRONTEND, args);
     }
 
-
-
-    /**
-     * Get the location of AntHome
-     *
-     * @return the URL containing AntHome.
-     * @throws InitException if Ant's home cannot be determined or properly
-     *      contructed.
-     */
-    private URL getAntHome()
-         throws InitException {
-        try {
-            URL libraryURL = getLibraryURL();
-            if (libraryURL != null) {
-                return new URL(libraryURL, "..");
-            }
-        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
-            throw new InitException(e);
-        }
-        throw new InitException("Unable to determine Ant Home");
-    }
-
-
     /**
      * Internal start method used to initialise front end
      *
+     * @param frontend the frontend jar to launch
      * @param args commandline arguments
      */
-    private void start(String[] args) {
+    public void start(String frontend, String[] args) {
         try {
             InitConfig config = new InitConfig();
 
-            URL libraryURL = getLibraryURL();
-            config.setLibraryURL(libraryURL);
-
-            URL antHome = getAntHome();
-            config.setAntHome(antHome);
-            if (antHome.getProtocol().equals("file")) {
-                File systemConfigArea = new File(antHome.getFile(), "conf");
-                config.setSystemConfigArea(systemConfigArea);
-            }
-            File userConfigArea
-                 = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"), ".ant/conf");
-            config.setUserConfigArea(userConfigArea);
+            URL frontendJar = new URL(config.getLibraryURL(), 
+                "frontend/" + frontend + ".jar");
+            URL[] frontendJars = new URL[]{frontendJar};
+            ClassLoader frontEndLoader 
+                = new URLClassLoader(frontendJars, config.getCoreLoader());
 
-            // set up the class loaders that will be used when running Ant
-            ClassLoader systemLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
-            config.setSystemLoader(systemLoader);
-            URL toolsJarURL = ClassLocator.getToolsJarURL();
-            config.setToolsJarURL(toolsJarURL);
-
-            URL commonJarLib = new URL(libraryURL, "common/");
-            ClassLoader commonLoader
-                 = new URLClassLoader(LoaderUtils.getLocationURLs(commonJarLib,
-                "common.jar"), systemLoader);
-            config.setCommonLoader(commonLoader);
-
-            // core needs XML parser for parsing various XML components.
-            URL[] parserURLs
-                 = LoaderUtils.getLocationURLs(new URL(libraryURL, "parser/"),
-                "crimson.jar");
-            config.setParserURLs(parserURLs);
-
-            URL[] coreURLs
-                 = LoaderUtils.getLocationURLs(new URL(libraryURL, "antcore/"),
-                "antcore.jar");
-            URL[] combinedURLs = new URL[parserURLs.length + coreURLs.length];
-            System.arraycopy(coreURLs, 0, combinedURLs, 0, coreURLs.length);
-            System.arraycopy(parserURLs, 0, combinedURLs, coreURLs.length,
-                parserURLs.length);
-            ClassLoader coreLoader = new URLClassLoader(combinedURLs,
-                commonLoader);
-            config.setCoreLoader(coreLoader);
-
-            URL cliJarLib = new URL(libraryURL, "cli/");
-            ClassLoader frontEndLoader
-                 = new URLClassLoader(LoaderUtils.getLocationURLs(cliJarLib,
-                "cli.jar"), coreLoader);
-
-            //System.out.println("System Loader config");                
-            //LoaderUtils.dumpLoader(System.out, systemLoader);
-            // System.out.println("Front End Loader config");
-            // LoaderUtils.dumpLoader(System.out, frontEndLoader);
+            //System.out.println("Front End Loader config");
+            //LoaderUtils.dumpLoader(System.out, frontEndLoader);
 
             // Now start the front end by reflection.
             Class commandLineClass = Class.forName(COMMANDLINE_CLASS, true,
@@ -220,7 +113,6 @@ public class Main {
                  = commandLineClass.getMethod("start", param);
             final Object[] argument = {args, config};
             startMethod.invoke(null, argument);
-
         } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }