"Looking for a faster way to compile with Ant? A growing number of Open Source developers say that Javamake or Jikes might just do the trick.
"JavaMake, according to contributors at Experimental Stuff can be used instead of the Ant Javac task for compiling a Java source tree. In particular, ES says Javamake takes all of the usual Javac parameters (attributes) such as srcdir, destdir or classpath, and can use any Java compiler specified with build.compiler property..."
