diff -w -u /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/AbstractCatalinaTask.java /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/AbstractCatalinaTask.java
--- /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/AbstractCatalinaTask.java	2002-06-25 19:53:12.000000000 +0200
+++ /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/AbstractCatalinaTask.java	2002-06-26 01:10:24.000000000 +0200
@@ -69,12 +69,12 @@
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
+
 import org.apache.catalina.util.Base64;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
 
-
 /**
  * Abstract base class for Ant tasks that interact with the
  * <em>Manager</em> web application for dynamically deploying and
@@ -136,6 +136,19 @@
     }
 
 
+   /**
+    * global flag indicating wether to throw buildException on error or not
+    */
+   protected boolean failonerror = true;
+
+   public boolean getFailonerror() {
+      return (this.failonerror);
+   }
+
+   public void setFailonerror(boolean failonerror) {
+      this.failonerror = failonerror;
+   }
+
     // --------------------------------------------------------- Public Methods
 
 
@@ -149,7 +162,7 @@
     public void execute() throws BuildException {
 
         if ((username == null) || (password == null) || (url == null)) {
-            throw new BuildException
+         if(failonerror) throw new BuildException
                 ("Must specify all of 'username', 'password', and 'url'");
         }
 
@@ -249,6 +262,7 @@
             StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer();
             String error = null;
             boolean first = true;
+         int lastChar = 0;
             while (true) {
                 int ch = reader.read();
                 if (ch < 0) {
@@ -256,26 +270,36 @@
                 } else if ((ch == '\r') || (ch == '\n')) {
                     String line = buff.toString();
                     buff.setLength(0);
-                    log(line, Project.MSG_INFO);
+
+               int logLevel = Project.MSG_INFO;
                     if (first) {
-                        if (!line.startsWith("OK -")) {
+                  if (line.startsWith("FAIL -")) {
                             error = line;
+                     logLevel = Project.MSG_ERR;
+                  } else {
+                     logLevel = Project.MSG_INFO;
                         }
                         first = false;
                     }
+
+               // log only if its not allready logged on first linefeed char
+               // (win32 issue because of 2char linefeed - prevents empty log lines)
+               if (!(ch == '\n' && lastChar == '\r')) log(line, logLevel);
                 } else {
                     buff.append((char) ch);
                 }
+            lastChar = ch;
             }
             if (buff.length() > 0) {
                 log(buff.toString(), Project.MSG_INFO);
             }
             if (error != null) {
+            if (failonerror)
                 throw new BuildException(error);
             }
 
         } catch (Throwable t) {
-            throw new BuildException(t);
+         if(failonerror) throw new BuildException(t);
         } finally {
             if (reader != null) {
                 try {
diff -w -u /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/DeployTask.java /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/DeployTask.java
--- /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/DeployTask.java	2002-06-25 19:53:20.000000000 +0200
+++ /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/DeployTask.java	2002-06-25 23:00:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -126,11 +126,11 @@
 
         super.execute();
         if (path == null) {
-            throw new BuildException
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException
                 ("Must specify 'path' attribute");
         }
         if (war == null) {
-            throw new BuildException
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException
                 ("Must specify 'war' attribute");
         }
         BufferedInputStream stream = null;
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
             contentLength = conn.getContentLength();
             stream = new BufferedInputStream(conn.getInputStream(), 1024);
         } catch (IOException e) {
-            throw new BuildException(e);
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException(e);
         }
         execute("/deploy?path=" + URLEncoder.encode(this.path), stream,
                 "application/octet-stream", contentLength);
diff -w -u /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/InstallTask.java /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/InstallTask.java
--- /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/InstallTask.java	2002-06-25 19:53:28.000000000 +0200
+++ /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/InstallTask.java	2002-06-25 22:59:56.000000000 +0200
@@ -137,11 +137,11 @@
 
         super.execute();
         if (path == null) {
-            throw new BuildException
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException
                 ("Must specify 'path' attribute");
         }
         if ((config == null) && (war == null)) {
-            throw new BuildException
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException
                 ("Must specify at least one of 'config' and 'war'");
         }
         StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer("/install?path=");
diff -w -u /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/ReloadTask.java /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/ReloadTask.java
--- /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/ReloadTask.java	2002-06-25 19:53:40.000000000 +0200
+++ /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/ReloadTask.java	2002-06-25 22:59:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -108,8 +108,7 @@
 
         super.execute();
         if (path == null) {
-            throw new BuildException
-                ("Must specify 'path' attribute");
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException("Must specify 'path' attribute");
         }
         execute("/reload?path=" + URLEncoder.encode(this.path));
 
diff -w -u /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/RemoveTask.java /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/RemoveTask.java
--- /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/RemoveTask.java	2002-06-25 19:53:48.000000000 +0200
+++ /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/RemoveTask.java	2002-06-25 22:59:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@
 
         super.execute();
         if (path == null) {
-            throw new BuildException
-                ("Must specify 'path' attribute");
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException("Must specify 'path' attribute");
         }
         execute("/remove?path=" + URLEncoder.encode(this.path));
 
diff -w -u /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/StartTask.java /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/StartTask.java
--- /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/StartTask.java	2002-06-25 19:54:10.000000000 +0200
+++ /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/StartTask.java	2002-06-25 22:56:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -108,8 +108,7 @@
 
         super.execute();
         if (path == null) {
-            throw new BuildException
-                ("Must specify 'path' attribute");
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException("Must specify 'path' attribute");
         }
         execute("/start?path=" + URLEncoder.encode(this.path));
 
diff -w -u /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/StopTask.java /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/StopTask.java
--- /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/StopTask.java	2002-06-25 19:54:18.000000000 +0200
+++ /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/StopTask.java	2002-06-25 22:57:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -108,8 +108,7 @@
 
         super.execute();
         if (path == null) {
-            throw new BuildException
-                ("Must specify 'path' attribute");
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException("Must specify 'path' attribute");
         }
         execute("/stop?path=" + URLEncoder.encode(this.path));
 
diff -w -u /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/UndeployTask.java /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/UndeployTask.java
--- /cygdrive/d/development/java/tomcat_tasks/src/UndeployTask.java	2002-06-25 19:54:24.000000000 +0200
+++ /cygdrive/d/development/java/projects/tomcat_tasks/src/org/apache/catalina/ant/UndeployTask.java	2002-06-25 22:58:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@
 
         super.execute();
         if (path == null) {
-            throw new BuildException
-                ("Must specify 'path' attribute");
+            if(failonerror) throw new BuildException("Must specify 'path' attribute");
         }
         execute("/undeploy?path=" + this.path);