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Some weeks months ago I finally got my hands on the ThoughtWorks Anthology and got immediately hooked on one of the featured essays called 'Refactoring Ant Build Files' contributed by Julian Simpson aka the build doctor. After absorbing and studying the provided catalogue of overall 24 refactorings, I spent some time to transform a few health-promoting ones to the Phing universe. So the following post will outline six five basic, but valuable Phing build file refactorings by showing the smelly example first, followed by the scentless one and a closing refactoring description.