--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -773,4 +773,23 @@
     </fail>
   </target>
 
+  <target depends="" name="javadoc" description="o Generate javadoc" >
+    <mkdir dir="${build.home}/docs" >
+    </mkdir>
+    <tstamp >
+      <format pattern="2001-yyyy" property="year" >
+      </format>
+    </tstamp>
+    <property name="copyright" value="Copyright &amp;copy;  The Apache Software Foundation. All Rights Reserved." >
+    </property>
+    <property name="title" value="Logging 1.1 API" >
+    </property>
+    <javadoc use="true" author="true" sourcepath="src/main/java" destdir="${build.home}/docs" version="true" private="true" packagenames="org.apache.commons.logging.*" >
+      <classpath >
+        <path refid="javadoc.classpath" >
+        </path>
+      </classpath>
+    </javadoc>
+  </target>
+
 </project>