diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/build.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/build.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b54925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/build.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#	 ***************************************************************
+#	 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#	 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#	 * distributed with this work for additional information
+#	 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#	 * to you 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.
+#	 ***************************************************************
+projects.dir = ${basedir}/..
+wkspace.dir = ${projects.dir}/..
+common.dir = ${wkspace.dir}/common
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/build.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5c02cba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0">
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project name="console" default="compile">
+	<property file="build.properties"/>
+	
+	<import file="${common.dir}/common.xml"/>
+</project>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/ivy.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/ivy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b1eb4f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/ivy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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.
+-->
+<ivy-module version="1.0">
+    <info 
+        organisation="org.apache.ivy.example"
+        module="console"
+        status="integration"/>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency name="version" rev="latest.integration" conf="default" />
+      <dependency name="list" rev="latest.integration" conf="default->standalone" />
+      <dependency name="find" rev="latest.integration" conf="default->standalone" />
+      <dependency name="sizewhere" rev="latest.integration" conf="default->standalone" />
+    </dependencies>
+</ivy-module>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/sigil.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/sigil.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dea089f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/sigil.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+
+-bundles: console
+
+-exports: console
+
+-imports: list
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/src/console/Main.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/src/console/Main.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..678f3ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/console/src/console/Main.java
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package console;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+
+
+public class Main {
+    private static Collection QUIT_COMMANDS = Arrays.asList(new String[] {"quit", "q", "exit"});
+    private static Collection HELP_COMMANDS = Arrays.asList(new String[] {"help", "h", "?"});
+
+    public static void main(String[] a) throws Exception {
+      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
+      while (true) {
+        System.out.print("> ");
+        String command = in.readLine().trim();
+        if (QUIT_COMMANDS.contains(command)) {
+          return;
+        }
+        if (HELP_COMMANDS.contains(command)) {
+          help();
+          continue;
+        }
+        String[] split = command.split(" ");
+        if (split.length == 0) {
+          error(command);
+          continue;
+        }
+        
+        try {
+          String[] args = new String[split.length - 1];
+          System.arraycopy(split, 1, args, 0, args.length);
+          Class cl = Class.forName(split[0]+".Main");
+          Method m = cl.getMethod("main", new Class[] {String[].class});
+          m.invoke(null, new Object[] {args});
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+          error(command);
+          continue;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    
+    private static void help() {
+      System.out.println("available commands:");
+      System.out.println("\tquit: quit the console");
+      System.out.println("\thelp: displays this message");
+      System.out.println("\tlist -dir <dir>: list files in given directory");
+      System.out.println("\tfind -dir <dir> -name <name>: list files with given name in given dir");
+      System.out.println("\tsizewhere -dir <dir> -name <name>: compute total size of files with given name in given dir");
+      System.out.println("\thelp: displays this message");
+    }
+            
+    private static void error(String command) {
+      System.out.println("unknown command "+command);
+      System.out.println("type ? for help");
+    }
+            
+}
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/build.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/build.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b54925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/build.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#	 ***************************************************************
+#	 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#	 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#	 * distributed with this work for additional information
+#	 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#	 * to you 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.
+#	 ***************************************************************
+projects.dir = ${basedir}/..
+wkspace.dir = ${projects.dir}/..
+common.dir = ${wkspace.dir}/common
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/build.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4d23bf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0">
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project name="find" default="compile">
+	<property file="build.properties"/>
+	
+	<import file="${common.dir}/common.xml"/>
+</project>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/ivy.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/ivy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b7f1bc1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/ivy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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.
+-->
+<ivy-module version="1.0">
+    <info 
+        organisation="org.apache.ivy.example"
+        module="find"
+        status="integration"/>
+    <configurations>
+      <conf name="core"/>
+      <conf name="standalone" extends="core"/>
+    </configurations>
+    <publications>
+      <artifact name="find" type="jar" conf="core" />
+    </publications>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency name="version" rev="latest.integration" conf="core->default" />
+      <dependency name="list" rev="latest.integration" conf="core" />
+      <dependency org="commons-collections" name="commons-collections" rev="3.1" conf="core->default" />
+      <dependency org="commons-cli" name="commons-cli" rev="1.0" conf="standalone->default" />
+    </dependencies>
+</ivy-module>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/sigil.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/sigil.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..30c10a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/sigil.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+-bundles: find
+
+-exports: find
+
+-imports:\
+  version, \
+  list, \
+  org.apache.commons.collections, \
+  org.apache.commons.cli
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/src/find/FindFile.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/src/find/FindFile.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..25fa1af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/src/find/FindFile.java
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package find;
+
+import version.Version;
+import list.ListFile;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.io.File;
+
+import  org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils;
+import  org.apache.commons.collections.Predicate;
+
+public class FindFile {
+  static {
+    Version.register("find");
+  }
+  
+  public static Collection find(File dir, String name) {
+    return find(ListFile.list(dir), name);
+  }
+  
+  private static Collection find(Collection files, final String name) {    
+    return CollectionUtils.select(files, new Predicate() {
+      public boolean evaluate(Object o) {
+        return ((File)o).getName().indexOf(name) != -1;
+      }
+    });
+  }
+}
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/src/find/Main.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/src/find/Main.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a41c136
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/find/src/find/Main.java
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package find;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLineParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.HelpFormatter;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.OptionBuilder;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
+
+public class Main {
+    private static Options getOptions() {
+        Option dir = OptionBuilder.withArgName("dir")
+            .hasArg()
+            .withDescription("list files in given dir")
+            .create("dir");
+        Option name = OptionBuilder.withArgName("name")
+            .hasArg()
+            .withDescription("list files with given name")
+            .create("name");
+        Options options = new Options();
+
+        options.addOption(dir);
+        options.addOption(name);
+        
+        return options;
+    }
+    
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        Options options = getOptions();
+        try {
+        
+            CommandLineParser parser = new GnuParser();
+    
+            CommandLine line = parser.parse(options, args);
+            File dir = new File(line.getOptionValue("dir", "."));
+            String name = line.getOptionValue("name", "jar");
+            Collection files = FindFile.find(dir, name);
+            System.out.println("listing files in " + dir + " containing " + name);
+            for (Iterator it = files.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
+                System.out.println("\t" + it.next() + "\n");
+            }
+        } catch(ParseException exp) {
+            // oops, something went wrong
+            System.err.println("Parsing failed.  Reason: " + exp.getMessage());
+              
+            HelpFormatter formatter = new HelpFormatter();
+            formatter.printHelp("find", options);
+        }        
+    }
+            
+}
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/build.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/build.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b54925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/build.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#	 ***************************************************************
+#	 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#	 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#	 * distributed with this work for additional information
+#	 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#	 * to you 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.
+#	 ***************************************************************
+projects.dir = ${basedir}/..
+wkspace.dir = ${projects.dir}/..
+common.dir = ${wkspace.dir}/common
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/build.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3926148
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0">
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project name="list" default="compile">
+	<property file="build.properties"/>
+	
+	<import file="${common.dir}/common.xml"/>
+</project>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/ivy.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/ivy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6593fb7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/ivy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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.
+-->
+<ivy-module version="1.0">
+    <info 
+        organisation="org.apache.ivy.example"
+        module="list"
+        status="integration"/>
+    <configurations>
+      <conf name="core"/>
+      <conf name="standalone" extends="core"/>
+    </configurations>
+    <publications>
+      <artifact name="list" type="jar" conf="core" />
+    </publications>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency name="version" rev="latest.integration" conf="core->default" />
+      <dependency org="commons-cli" name="commons-cli" rev="1.0" conf="standalone->default" />
+    </dependencies>
+</ivy-module>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/sigil.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/sigil.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..302cba7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/sigil.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+
+# requirements
+
+-imports:\
+  version, \
+  org.apache.commons.cli
+
+# exports
+
+-bundles: list
+
+list;name: org.example.list
+list;-exports: list.*
+
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/src/list/ListFile.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/src/list/ListFile.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7467152
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/src/list/ListFile.java
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package list;
+
+import version.Version;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.io.File;
+
+public class ListFile {
+  static {
+    Version.register("list");
+  }
+  
+  public static Collection list(File dir) {
+    Collection files = new ArrayList();
+    
+    return list(dir, files);
+  }
+  
+  private static Collection list(File file, Collection files) {
+    if (file.isDirectory()) {
+      File[] f = file.listFiles();
+      for (int i=0; i<f.length; i++) {
+        list(f[i], files);
+      }
+    } else {
+      files.add(file);
+    }
+    return files;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/src/list/Main.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/src/list/Main.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0f8cb14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/list/src/list/Main.java
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package list;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+
+import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLineParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.HelpFormatter;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.OptionBuilder;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
+
+public class Main {
+    private static Options getOptions() {
+        Option dir = OptionBuilder.withArgName( "dir" )
+            .hasArg()
+            .withDescription(  "list files in given dir" )
+            .create( "dir" );
+        Options options = new Options();
+
+        options.addOption(dir);
+        
+        return options;
+    }
+    
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+      Options options = getOptions();
+      try {
+        
+        CommandLineParser parser = new GnuParser();
+
+        CommandLine line = parser.parse( options, args );
+        File dir = new File(line.getOptionValue("dir", "."));
+        Collection files = ListFile.list(dir);
+        System.out.println("listing files in "+dir);
+        for (Iterator it = files.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
+          System.out.println("\t"+it.next()+"\n");
+        }
+      } catch( ParseException exp ) {
+          // oops, something went wrong
+          System.err.println( "Parsing failed.  Reason: " + exp.getMessage() );
+          
+        HelpFormatter formatter = new HelpFormatter();
+        formatter.printHelp( "list", options );
+      }        
+    }
+            
+}
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sigil-defaults.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sigil-defaults.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d61df45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sigil-defaults.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+# sigil-defaults.properties
+
+package;org.apache.commons.cli: [1.1,1.2)
+package;org.apache.commons.collections: [3.0,4.0)
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/build.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/build.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b54925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/build.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#	 ***************************************************************
+#	 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#	 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#	 * distributed with this work for additional information
+#	 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#	 * to you 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.
+#	 ***************************************************************
+projects.dir = ${basedir}/..
+wkspace.dir = ${projects.dir}/..
+common.dir = ${wkspace.dir}/common
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/build.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2a75fe5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0">
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project name="size" default="compile">
+	<property file="build.properties"/>
+	
+	<import file="${common.dir}/common.xml"/>
+</project>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/ivy.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/ivy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7112b7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/ivy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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.
+-->
+<ivy-module version="1.0">
+    <info 
+        organisation="org.apache.ivy.example"
+        module="size"
+        status="integration"/>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency name="version" rev="latest.integration" conf="default" />
+      <dependency name="list" rev="latest.integration" conf="default->core" />
+    </dependencies>
+</ivy-module>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/sigil.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/sigil.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf239af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/sigil.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+-bundles: size
+
+-exports: size
+
+-imports:\
+  list, \
+  version
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/src/size/FileSize.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/src/size/FileSize.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dcd4a1c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/size/src/size/FileSize.java
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package size;
+
+import version.Version;
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.io.File;
+
+public class FileSize {
+  static {
+    Version.register("size");
+  }
+
+  public static long totalSize(File dir) {
+    return totalSize(list.ListFile.list(dir));
+  }
+  
+  public static long totalSize(Collection files) {
+    long total = 0;
+    for (Iterator it = files.iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
+      File f = (File)it.next();
+      total += f.length();
+    }
+    return total;
+  }  
+}
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/build.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/build.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b54925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/build.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#	 ***************************************************************
+#	 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#	 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#	 * distributed with this work for additional information
+#	 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#	 * to you 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.
+#	 ***************************************************************
+projects.dir = ${basedir}/..
+wkspace.dir = ${projects.dir}/..
+common.dir = ${wkspace.dir}/common
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/build.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0b8ab4c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0">
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project name="sizewhere" default="compile">
+	<property file="build.properties"/>
+	
+	<import file="${common.dir}/common.xml"/>
+</project>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/ivy.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/ivy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d50bddb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/ivy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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.
+-->
+<ivy-module version="1.0">
+    <info 
+        organisation="org.apache.ivy.example"
+        module="sizewhere"
+        status="integration"/>
+    <configurations>
+      <conf name="core"/>
+      <conf name="standalone" extends="core"/>
+    </configurations>
+    <publications>
+      <artifact name="sizewhere" type="jar" conf="core" />
+    </publications>
+    <dependencies>
+      <dependency name="version" rev="latest.integration" conf="core->default" />
+      <dependency name="size" rev="latest.integration" conf="core->default" />
+      <dependency name="find" rev="latest.integration" conf="core" />
+      <dependency org="commons-cli" name="commons-cli" rev="1.0" conf="standalone->default" />
+    </dependencies>
+</ivy-module>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/sigil.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/sigil.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c272f9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/sigil.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+-bundles: sizewhere
+
+-exports: sizewhere
+
+-imports:\
+  find, \
+  size, \
+  version, \
+  org.apache.commons.cli
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/src/sizewhere/Main.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/src/sizewhere/Main.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..131af66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/src/sizewhere/Main.java
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package sizewhere;
+
+import java.io.File;
+
+import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLineParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.HelpFormatter;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.OptionBuilder;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.Options;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
+
+public class Main {
+    private static Options getOptions() {
+        Option dir = OptionBuilder.withArgName( "dir" )
+            .hasArg()
+            .withDescription(  "give total size of files in given dir" )
+            .create( "dir" );
+        Option name = OptionBuilder.withArgName( "name" )
+            .hasArg()
+            .withDescription(  "give total size of files with given name" )
+            .create( "name" );
+        Options options = new Options();
+
+        options.addOption(dir);
+        options.addOption(name);
+        
+        return options;
+    }
+    
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+      Options options = getOptions();
+      try {
+        
+        CommandLineParser parser = new GnuParser();
+
+        CommandLine line = parser.parse( options, args );
+        File dir = new File(line.getOptionValue("dir", "."));
+        String name = line.getOptionValue("name", "jar");
+        System.out.println("total size of files in "+dir+" containing "+name+": "+SizeWhere.totalSize(dir, name));
+      } catch( ParseException exp ) {
+          // oops, something went wrong
+          System.err.println( "Parsing failed.  Reason: " + exp.getMessage() );
+          
+        HelpFormatter formatter = new HelpFormatter();
+        formatter.printHelp( "sizewhere", options );
+      }        
+    }
+            
+}
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/src/sizewhere/SizeWhere.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/src/sizewhere/SizeWhere.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3594bd9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/sizewhere/src/sizewhere/SizeWhere.java
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package sizewhere;
+
+import version.Version;
+import size.FileSize;
+import find.FindFile;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.io.File;
+
+public class SizeWhere {
+  static {
+    Version.register("sizewhere");
+  }
+  
+  public static long totalSize(File dir, String name) {
+    return FileSize.totalSize(FindFile.find(dir, name));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/build.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/build.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1b54925
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/build.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+#	 ***************************************************************
+#	 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+#	 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+#	 * distributed with this work for additional information
+#	 * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+#	 * to you 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.
+#	 ***************************************************************
+projects.dir = ${basedir}/..
+wkspace.dir = ${projects.dir}/..
+common.dir = ${wkspace.dir}/common
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/build.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..375db20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+<?xml version="1.0">
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+  "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+  with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+  software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+  "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+  KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+  specific language governing permissions and limitations
+  under the License.
+-->
+<project name="version" default="compile">
+	<property file="build.properties"/>
+	
+	<import file="${common.dir}/common.xml"/>
+</project>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/ivy.xml b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/ivy.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16e08f3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/ivy.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+  or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+  distributed with this work for additional information
+  regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+  to you 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.
+-->
+<ivy-module version="1.0">
+    <info 
+        organisation="org.apache.ivy.example"
+        module="version"
+        status="integration"/>
+</ivy-module>
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/sigil.properties b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/sigil.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a940ffd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/sigil.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+
+-bundles: version
+
+-exports: version
diff --git a/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/src/version/Version.java b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/src/version/Version.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c69bc5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sigil/bld-ivy/example/multi-project/projects/version/src/version/Version.java
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ */
+
+package version;
+
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+
+public class Version {
+    static {
+        versions = new HashMap();
+        register("version");
+    }
+  
+    private static Map versions;
+  
+    public static void register(String module) {
+        try {
+            InputStream moduleVersion = Version.class.getResourceAsStream("/"+module+".properties");
+            Properties props = new Properties();
+            props.load(moduleVersion);
+            String version = (String)props.get("version");
+            versions.put(module, version);
+            System.out.println("--- using "+module+" v"+version);
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            System.err.println("an error occured while registering "+module+": "+ex.getMessage());
+            ex.printStackTrace();
+        }
+    }
+}