diff --git a/tutorial/java/JavaServer b/tutorial/java/JavaServer
deleted file mode 100755
index cf977ca..0000000
--- a/tutorial/java/JavaServer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-
-# Optionally the following properties could be set for SSL instead
-# of configuring it in the code
-# -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=../../lib/java/test/.truststore
-# -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=thrift
-# -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=../../lib/java/test/.keystore
-# -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=thrift
-
-java -cp ../../lib/java/build/lib/*:../../lib/java/build/*:tutorial.jar JavaServer
diff --git a/tutorial/java/JavaClient b/tutorial/java/Makefile.am
similarity index 67%
rename from tutorial/java/JavaClient
rename to tutorial/java/Makefile.am
index dae515e..16ae399 100755
--- a/tutorial/java/JavaClient
+++ b/tutorial/java/Makefile.am
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
 #
 # Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 # or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
@@ -19,4 +17,21 @@
 # under the License.
 #
 
-java -cp ../../lib/java/build/lib/*:../../lib/java/build/*:tutorial.jar JavaClient $1
+export CLASSPATH
+
+# Make sure this doesn't fail if ant is not configured.
+clean-local:
+	ANT=$(ANT) ; if test -z "$$ANT" ; then ANT=: ; fi ; \
+	$$ANT $(ANT_FLAGS) clean
+
+check-local: all
+	$(ANT) $(ANT_FLAGS) test
+
+tutorial: all
+	$(ANT) $(ANT_FLAGS) tutorial
+
+tutorialserver: all
+	$(ANT) $(ANT_FLAGS) tutorialserver
+
+tutorialclient: all
+	$(ANT) $(ANT_FLAGS) tutorialclient
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tutorial/java/README b/tutorial/java/README
index 9f03ba7..c0811f7 100644
--- a/tutorial/java/README
+++ b/tutorial/java/README
@@ -1,29 +1,20 @@
-Steps for Java tutorial
+Thrift Java Tutorial
 ==================================================
+1) Compile the Java library
 
-1) Make sure thrift is compiled, both the compiler and the Java library. You should
-be able to verify the following:
+thrift/lib/java$ make
+or:
+thrift/lib/java$ ant
 
-thrift/tutorial/java$ file ../../lib/java/build/libthrift-${version}-${release}.jar 
-../../lib/java/libthrift.jar: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
+4) Run the tutorial:
 
-thrift/tutorial/java$ file ../../compiler/cpp/thrift
-../../compiler/cpp/thrift: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.15, not stripped
+start server and client with one step:
+thrift/tutorial/java$ make tutorial
 
-thrift/tutorial/java$ ls ../../lib/java/build/ivy/lib/
-commons-lang-2.5.jar  junit-4.4.jar  servlet-api-2.5.jar  slf4j-api-1.5.8.jar  slf4j-simple-1.5.8.jar
+or:
+thrift/tutorial/java$ make tutorialserver
+thrift/tutorial/java$ make tutorialclient
 
-
-2) Generate code for java:
-
-thrift/tutorial/java$ cd ..
-thrift/tutorial$ thrift -r -gen java tutorial.thrift
-
-3) Compile example
-
-thrift/tutorial/java$ ant
-
-4) Run example:
-
-thrift/tutorial/java$ ./JavaServer &
-thrift/tutorial/java$ ./JavaClient
+or:
+thrift/tutorial/java$ ant tutorialserver
+thrift/tutorial/java$ ant tutorialclient
diff --git a/tutorial/java/build.xml b/tutorial/java/build.xml
index 2ee11c0..28c3bd6 100644
--- a/tutorial/java/build.xml
+++ b/tutorial/java/build.xml
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@
 -->
 <project name="tutorial" default="tutorial" basedir=".">
 
-  <description>Thrift Tutorial</description>
+  <description>Thrift Java Tutorial</description>
 
   <property name="src" location="src" />
-  <property name="gen" location="../gen-java" />
+  <property name="gen" location="gen-java" />
   <property name="build" location="build" />
 
   <path id="libs.classpath">
@@ -37,19 +37,71 @@
     <path refid="libs.classpath" />
     <pathelement path="${gen}" />
   </path>
-
+  <path id="tutorial.classpath">
+    <path refid="build.classpath" />
+    <pathelement path="${build}" />
+    <pathelement path="tutorial.jar" />
+  </path>
+  
   <target name="init">
     <tstamp />
     <mkdir dir="${build}"/>
+    <mkdir dir="${build}/log"/>
   </target>
 
-  <target name="compile" depends="init">
+  <target name="compile" depends="init, generate">
     <javac srcdir="${gen}" destdir="${build}" classpathref="libs.classpath" />
     <javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}" classpathref="build.classpath" />
   </target>
 
-  <target name="tutorial" depends="compile">
+  <target name="test" depends="tutorial" />
+
+  <target name="tutorial" description="Run the tutorial" depends="compile">
     <jar jarfile="tutorial.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
+    <parallel>
+      <java classname="JavaServer" fork="true" timeout="10000"
+        classpathref="tutorial.classpath" failonerror="false" output="${build}/log/tutorial.log">
+      </java>
+      <sequential>
+        <sleep seconds="2"/>
+        <echo>tutorial client simple:</echo>
+        <java classname="JavaClient"
+          classpathref="tutorial.classpath" failonerror="true">
+          <arg line="simple"/>
+        </java>
+        <echo>tutorial client secure:</echo>
+        <java classname="JavaClient"
+          classpathref="tutorial.classpath" failonerror="true">
+          <arg line="secure"/>
+        </java>
+      </sequential>
+    </parallel>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="generate">
+    <!-- Generate the thrift gen-java source -->
+    <exec executable="../../compiler/cpp/thrift" failonerror="true">
+      <arg line="--gen java -r  ../tutorial.thrift"/>
+    </exec>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="tutorialclient" description="Run a tutorial client" depends="compile">
+    <echo>tutorial client simple:</echo>
+    <java classname="JavaClient"
+      classpathref="tutorial.classpath" failonerror="true">
+      <arg line="simple"/>
+    </java>
+    <echo>tutorial client secure:</echo>
+    <java classname="JavaClient"
+      classpathref="tutorial.classpath" failonerror="true">
+      <arg line="secure"/>
+    </java>
+  </target>
+
+  <target name="tutorialserver" description="Run a tutorial server" depends="compile">
+      <java classname="JavaServer" fork="true"
+        classpathref="tutorial.classpath" failonerror="false" output="${build}/log/tutorial.log">
+      </java>
   </target>
 
   <target name="clean">