diff --git a/dev-java/ant_core/ant_core-1.9.2.recipe b/dev-java/ant_core/ant_core-1.9.2.recipe
index 02040e7ae..8d72981fe 100644
--- a/dev-java/ant_core/ant_core-1.9.2.recipe
+++ b/dev-java/ant_core/ant_core-1.9.2.recipe
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
-SUMMARY="Java-based build tool similar to 'make' that uses XML configuration files"
-DESCRIPTION="Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for instance C or C++ applications. More generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks.
-
-Ant is written in Java. Users of Ant can develop their own "antlibs" containing Ant tasks and types, and are offered a large number of ready-made commercial or open-source "antlibs".
-
-Ant is extremely flexible and does not impose coding conventions or directory layouts to the Java projects which adopt it as a build tool.
-
-Software development projects looking for a solution combining build tool and dependency management can use Ant in combination with Apache Ivy.
-
-The Apache Ant project is part of the Apache Software Foundation."
+SUMMARY="Java-based build tool similar to 'make'"
+DESCRIPTION="
+Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive \
+processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent \
+upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java \
+applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, \
+assemble, test and run Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to \
+build non Java applications, for instance C or C++ applications. More \
+generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described \
+in terms of targets and tasks.
+Ant is written in Java. Users of Ant can develop their own "antlibs" \
+containing Ant tasks and types, and are offered a large number of ready-made \
+commercial or open-source "antlibs".
+Ant is extremely flexible and does not impose coding conventions or directory \
+layouts to the Java projects which adopt it as a build tool.
+Software development projects looking for a solution combining build tool and \
+dependency management can use Ant in combination with Apache Ivy.
+The Apache Ant project is part of the Apache Software Foundation.
+"
 HOMEPAGE="http://ant.apache.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="1999-2013 The Apache Software Foundation"
 LICENSE="Apache v2"
diff --git a/dev-java/gnu_classpath/gnu_classpath-0.98.recipe b/dev-java/gnu_classpath/gnu_classpath-0.98.recipe
index 5b7be2324..ed51897d4 100644
--- a/dev-java/gnu_classpath/gnu_classpath-0.98.recipe
+++ b/dev-java/gnu_classpath/gnu_classpath-0.98.recipe
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 SUMMARY="GNU Java class library"
-DESCRIPTION="Free core class libraries for use with virtual machines and compilers for the Java language"
+DESCRIPTION="
+Free core class libraries for use with virtual machines and compilers for the \
+Java language
+"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/classpath/classpath-0.98.tar.gz"
 REVISION="1"
diff --git a/dev-java/jamvm/jamvm-1.5.4.recipe b/dev-java/jamvm/jamvm-1.5.4.recipe
index ba931b270..f229a9749 100644
--- a/dev-java/jamvm/jamvm-1.5.4.recipe
+++ b/dev-java/jamvm/jamvm-1.5.4.recipe
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 SUMMARY="JamVM"
-DESCRIPTION="JamVM is a new Java Virtual Machine which conforms to the JVM specification version 2 (blue book).
-	In comparison to most other VM's (free and commercial) it is extremely small,"
+DESCRIPTION="
+JamVM is a new Java Virtual Machine which conforms to the JVM specification \
+version 2 (blue book). In comparison to most other VM's (free and commercial) \
+it is extremely small.
+"
 HOMEPAGE="http://jamvm.sourceforge.net/" 
 SRC_URI="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jamvm/files/jamvm/JamVM%201.5.4/jamvm-1.5.4.tar.gz/download"
 REVISION="1"