diff --git a/ant/src/plugin-resources/templates/build.jelly b/ant/src/plugin-resources/templates/build.jelly
index 7fbf0af3..1d44194d 100644
--- a/ant/src/plugin-resources/templates/build.jelly
+++ b/ant/src/plugin-resources/templates/build.jelly
@@ -370,6 +370,13 @@
     name="get-deps"
     depends="init"
     unless="noget">
+
+    <x:comment>Proxy settings works only with a JDK 1.2 and higher.</x:comment>
+    <setproxy 
+      proxyhost="${maven.proxy.host}" 
+      proxyport="${maven.proxy.port}" 
+      proxyuser="${maven.proxy.username}" 
+      proxypassword="${maven.proxy.password}"/>
   
     <j:forEach var="dep" items="${pom.dependencies}">
     <!-- note: this is a valid use of artifactDirectory -->
diff --git a/ant/xdocs/changes.xml b/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
index f803e514..6185646d 100644
--- a/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/ant/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
   </properties>
   <body>
     <release version="1.8-SNAPSHOT" date="In CVS">
+      <action dev="aheritier" type="add" issue="MPANT-9" due-to="Jan Nielsen">Add ant's setproxy tag.</action>
       <action dev="carlos" type="fix" issue="MPANT-16" due-to="Brent Worden" due-to-email="brent@worden.org">Use relative paths in directory properties.</action>
       <action dev="aheritier" type="update">Run Junit only if present in ANT (display a warning otherwise).</action>
     </release>
