>> On that note, is there a reason for xalan.jar and xerces.jar?
>
> It is needed only to generate HTML pages for the test results. If your
> ebuild is not going to execute unit tests - you can ignore that step
> (anyway, happens only when the tests-html-report-XXX tasks are used).

Oh, that was about xalan.jar. xerces.jar (or something compatible) you need
for ant anyway, but you alredy know this (and most likely either xerces or
crimson are shipped with jdk).

Roman