You can also use the fact that Ant creates implicit properties from the
Java system properties and do something like this:
This will load the user's specific properties file from their home
directory.
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Jeffrey E. Care ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WebSphere v7 Release Engineer
WebSphere Build T
At 04:42 PM 11/5/2005, you wrote:
I'm trying to set up a situation where my users can specify a
properties file where they can set properties specific to their machines. ...
properties are immutable so something like:
...
whoever defines a property
Ahh, but is even better to take advantage of the fact that properties are
immutable.
For example, I have a file called user.properties that contains some default
property settings. If the user does not want to use them then she just
specifies a user name on the command line and the user.properties
Mark
You could either use the condition something like:
Ant's immutability of properties will only set the userpropsdefine
property to default.properties if user.properties does not exist. Also,
if the userpropsdefine property was set within the condition it would
not be re-set fo
