Hello, i think, what you try to do doesnt work this way. The BCEL - thing reads the class-file, knows about the internal layout and can find out things about it. One of these is the constant - pool. Strings, doubles, long constants are put there by the compiler
your public final static xxxx is not included there. It is a (class-)member, which contains a reference to some other object (probably in another class). This reference is resolved when the class is loaded (simplfied). So, i would be surprised if you find what you are looking for in your class-file. I would go another way: because the class-file is available for ant, why not write a simple task to instantiate your class, query the property and convert the result to a string. Some template for a user-defined task should be available somewhere. HTH dvholten
