 The build will not continue once the time has expired.
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&lt;limit maxwait="3" failonerror="true"&gt;
   &lt;sleep seconds="10"/&gt;
   &lt;echo&gt;This won't happen...&lt;/echo&gt;
   &lt;fail&gt;This won't happen either...&lt;/fail&gt;
&lt;/limit&gt;

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The limit will be reached and a property will be set indicating so.
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