AW: How to organize project properties.

2004-09-07 Thread Jan . Materne
The source distro contains an "embed" directory [1] where someone played (a long time ago) with iterating over xml using xpath. What it does: - create a new PropertyHelper (datatype) - register that (using a task) - use a special property syntax ${ prefix : xmldocument / xpath} ${jxpath:/r

How to organize project properties.

2004-09-07 Thread bhaskar_karambelkar
This is more of a data organization question rather than ant question. I want to keep all configuration data in a sepreate properties file. either plain text or preferably XML. say for plain text #sys-name java-src jsp-src java-dest jsp-comp-dest system1 /proj1/src /proj1/jsp /proj1/classes /proj

RE: Chainedmapper question -- going crazy!

2004-09-07 Thread Sam Masiello
Yes, it was. Thank you both. I am very much a newbie to using ant (if you hadn't noticed :)) and realized that the issue that I was having was related to how I was updating my repositories from CVS prior to copying the files to where I do my builds from. Peter's example worked perfectly after

Re: Basic Question

2004-09-07 Thread Olivier Croisier
Oh, I didnt know that. Thank you for correcting me ! And sorry for my misleading posts... Then, what may be his problem's cause ? (Upgrading to Eclipse 3 may of course be of some help) Olivier -- CROISIER Olivier Software Engineer Thales IS - ANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

AW: Basic Question

2004-09-07 Thread Jan . Materne
yep: the shortest project should be :-) Jan > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Peter Reilly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet am: Dienstag, 7. September 2004 15:40 > An: Ant Users List > Betreff: Re: Basic Question > > Olivier Croisier wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Ant buildfiles wit

Re: Basic Question

2004-09-07 Thread Peter Reilly
Olivier Croisier wrote: Hi Ant buildfiles without a default target are invalid This is not true for ant 1.6+. In ant 1.6, if the default target is not set, the default target will be "" - and tasks/types outside targets. His problem is an interaction between elipse and ant. He may need to upgra