diff --git a/xdocs/building.xml b/xdocs/building.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fac64fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xdocs/building.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+Copyright 2002-2006 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ 
+Licensed 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.
+-->
+<document>
+ <properties>
+  <title>Building</title>
+  <author email="commons-dev@jakarta.apache.org">Commons Documentation Team</author>
+ </properties>
+<body>
+<!-- ================================================== -->
+<section name="Overview">
+<p>
+  Commons Logging uses <a href="http://ant.apache.org">Ant</a> as a build system
+  and <a href="http://maven.apache.org">Maven</a> for documentation only.
+</p>
+</section>
+<!-- ================================================== -->
+<section name="Maven Goals">
+  <p>
+    To build the full website, run "maven site".
+    The result will be in "target/docs".
+	You must be online and using JDK 1.4 or higher to successfully complete this target.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+	Further details can be found in the
+	<a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/building.html">commons build instructions</a>.
+  </p>
+</section>
+<!-- ================================================== -->
+<section name="Ant Goals">
+  <p>
+The complete release distribution is created by the <code>dist</code> target.
+Note that both a 1.2 JRE and a 1.4 JRE are needed to create the release
+distribution as well as all optional dependencies. 
+See <code>build.properties.sample</code> for more details. 
+  </p>
+</section>
+<!-- ================================================== -->
+</body>
+</document>
diff --git a/xdocs/navigation.xml b/xdocs/navigation.xml
index 5b78e27..3b7b24d 100755
--- a/xdocs/navigation.xml
+++ b/xdocs/navigation.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,8 @@
             href='/apidocs/index.html'/>
       <item name="Release Notes"
             href="/RELEASE-NOTES.txt"/>
+      <item name="Building"
+            href="/building.html"/>
       <item name="Download"
             href="http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_commons-logging.cgi"/>
     </menu>
