As noted in the forum:
http://support.icesoft.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=2287&tstart=0

It's a little bit of a stumbling block for users trying to build the tutorial
ant build scripts because they all refer to our svn paths, eg.
'location="../../../../../../../icefaces/build/lib/icefaces.jar'. We should
probably change this to '../../lib' and just tell them to put the packages in
the samples directory of the download bundle to correctly resolve the paths.

There is also confusion around how to specify the build-common.xml file location each tutorial's build.xml file. The correct anwser is to point it to the build-common.xml file included in the ICEfaces directory (itself created from unpacking a ICEfaces release bundle).

In order to smooth out these manual configuration steps we should consider the following:

A. Make each tutorial build fine without alteration if they unpack it under the ../icefaces/samples/ directory.
B. Add a README.TXT or .HTML document to the top level of each tutorial .zip bundle that explains the necessary configurations in detail.