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









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