You're right - adding the following line to build build.xml did the trick: <property file="test.properties"/>
So why doesn't it work with -propertyfile? I want to be able to specify different property files on the cmd line, and I was hoping to take advantage of this feature. Chuck Holzwarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have to import the property file or declare the properties in the build file. Thank you, Chuck Holzwarth (804) 403-3478 (home) (540) 335-3171 (cell) ----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Pelz Sherman To: Ant Users List Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:52:27 PM Subject: inline property expansion not working as advertised >From the Property task docs (http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/property.html) ================================ In-file property expansion is very cool. Learn to use it. Example: build.compiler=jikes deploy.server=lucky deploy.port=8080 deploy.url=http://${deploy.server}:${deploy.port}/ ================================ So I created a properties file with the above and the following build.xml file: ================================== deploy.url is ${deploy.url} ================================== The I ran it as follows: $ ant -propertyfile test.properties Here is the output: ================================== Buildfile: build.xml test: [echo] deploy.url is http://${deploy.server}:${deploy.port}/ BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 0 seconds ================================== I'm using ant 7.0. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, - mps ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping