diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 94a441e48cb9e1986dd31cdcc0e307488eb5657d..9ff45ed9403e9605be77b992ccb62f3c996dc2a1 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 /bin
+/build
+/dist
 /xtend-gen
 Thumbs.db
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diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aaa5c50fd8c52137da55b41613c46e849bc8d95c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project name="Analysis" default="build-all-analysis" basedir=".">
+
+	<property name="src.dir" value="src"/>
+	<property name="src-common.dir" value="../common-monitoring/src"/>
+	<property name="build.dir" value="build"/>
+	<property name="jar.dir" value="dist"/>
+	<property name="lib.dir" value="lib"/>
+	<property name="classes.java" value="classes/java"/>
+
+	<path id="classpath">
+		<fileset dir=".">
+			<include name="${lib.dir}/*.jar"/>
+		</fileset>
+	</path>
+
+
+	<path id="classpath-test">
+		<pathelement location="${build.dir}/${classes.java}" />
+
+		<fileset dir=".">
+			<include name="${lib.dir}/*.jar"/>
+		</fileset>
+	</path>
+
+	<target name="build-all-analysis" depends="clean,compile,analysis-jar" description="Compiles and packages the Jar">
+	</target>
+
+	<target name="clean" description="Removes artifacts from previous builds">
+		<delete dir="${build.dir}" includeemptydirs="true" />
+		<delete dir="${jar.dir}" includeemptydirs="true" />
+		<delete dir="${reports.dir}" includeemptydirs="true" />
+
+	</target>
+
+	<target name="compile">
+		<mkdir dir="${build.dir}"/>
+		<mkdir dir="${build.dir}/${classes.java}"/>
+		<javac srcdir="${src-common.dir}" destdir="${build.dir}/${classes.java}" classpathref="classpath" debug="true"/>
+		<javac srcdir="${src.dir}" destdir="${build.dir}/${classes.java}" classpathref="classpath" debug="true"/>
+	</target>
+	
+	<target name="analysis-jar" depends="compile">
+		<mkdir dir="${jar.dir}"/>
+		<jar destfile="${jar.dir}/explorviz-worker.jar">
+			<manifest>
+				<attribute name="Class-Path" value="."/>
+				<attribute name="Can-Redefine-Classes" value="true"/>
+			</manifest>
+			<fileset dir="${build.dir}/${classes.java}"/>
+			<fileset dir="${lib.dir}">
+				<include name="*.LICENSE"/>
+			</fileset>
+			<zipfileset excludes="META-INF/*.SF" src="${lib.dir}/disruptor-3.2.0.jar"/>
+		</jar>
+	</target>
+</project>
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