diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 15e73a5c0..865b16bed 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
                destdir="classes/checkstyle"
                deprecation="on" debug="on"
                classpathref="build.classpath" />
-        <copy file="src/checkstyle/anttasks.properties"
+        <copy file="src/checkstyle/checkstyletask.properties"
               todir="classes/checkstyle"/>
     </target>
 
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
     </target>
 
     <target name="checkstyle.simple" depends="compile.tests">
-        <taskdef resource="anttasks.properties">
+        <taskdef resource="checkstyletask.properties">
             <classpath refid="run.classpath"/>
         </taskdef>
         <checkstyle file="src/tests/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/InputWhitespace.java"/>
diff --git a/docs/anttask.html b/docs/anttask.html
index 97fb1667d..0cace7f5d 100644
--- a/docs/anttask.html
+++ b/docs/anttask.html
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ This task is included in the checkstyle distribution.</p>
 </pre>
 <p>Alternatively, since checkstyle version 2.1 you can use <code>taskdef</code>'s resource attribute:</p>
 <pre>
-  &lt;taskdef resource=&quot;anttasks.properties&quot;/&gt;
+  &lt;taskdef resource=&quot;checkstyletask.properties&quot;/&gt;
 </pre>
 
 
diff --git a/src/checkstyle/anttasks.properties b/src/checkstyle/checkstyletask.properties
similarity index 100%
rename from src/checkstyle/anttasks.properties
rename to src/checkstyle/checkstyletask.properties