diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 20e30590e..6a3b6a057 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1098,6 +1098,21 @@ FORREST_HOME environment variable!</echo>
             </manifest>        
         </jar>
     </target>
+  <target name="jar-examples" depends="compile, compile-version" description="Creates a jar file of the examples, in case people want to use them as-is">
+        <jar destfile="${dist.dir}/${jar.name}-examples-${version.id}-${DSTAMP}.jar">
+      			<fileset dir="${examples.output.dir}" />
+      			<fileset dir="legal/" />
+            <manifest>
+                <attribute name="Built-By" value="${user.name}"/>
+                <attribute name="Specification-Title" value="Apache POI"/>
+                <attribute name="Specification-Version" value="${version.id}-${DSTAMP}"/>
+                <attribute name="Specification-Vendor" value="Apache"/>
+                <attribute name="Implementation-Title" value="Apache POI"/>
+                <attribute name="Implementation-Version" value="${version.id}-${DSTAMP}"/>
+                <attribute name="Implementation-Vendor" value="Apache"/>
+            </manifest>        
+        </jar>
+    </target>
 
   <target name="dist" depends="clean, fail-unless-tools-are-available, compile, site, jar"
     description="Creates the entire distribution into build/dist, from scratch">
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
index deaf9f06e..b47b164c8 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 
 		<!-- Don't forget to update status.xml too! -->
         <release version="3.5-beta6" date="2009-??-??">
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">46554 - New ant target "jar-examples"</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">46161 - Support in XSSF for setGroupColumnCollapsed and setGroupRowCollapsed</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">46806 - Allow columns greater than 255 and rows greater than 0x100000 in XSSF formulas</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">41711 - Base class for "old version" exceptions, and new HSLF detection + use of old versions exception</action>
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 98cc1e251..8d595cbfe 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 	<!-- Don't forget to update changes.xml too! -->
     <changes>
         <release version="3.5-beta6" date="2009-??-??">
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">46554 - New ant target "jar-examples"</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">46161 - Support in XSSF for setGroupColumnCollapsed and setGroupRowCollapsed</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">46806 - Allow columns greater than 255 and rows greater than 0x100000 in XSSF formulas</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">41711 - Base class for "old version" exceptions, and new HSLF detection + use of old versions exception</action>