Which version of IvyDE do you use? Maarten
----- Original Message ---- From: "St. Denis, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 9, 2008 5:55:43 PM Subject: problem using properties in ivysettings with IvyDE When I use an ivy settings file with Ant from the command line I can use relative paths, for example: <properties file="global.properties" /> But when I use the same ivy settings file from IvyDE I need to use an absolute path to the property file. <properties file="/uhome/dsd/ivy/fms/global.properties" /> Otherwise I get the error below: BUILD FAILED /uhome/dsd/ivy/fms/ivy_common.xml:15: impossible to configure ivy:settings with given file: /uhome/dsd/ivy/fms/ivy_settings.xml :java.text.ParseException: failed to load settings from file:/uhome/dsd/ivy/fms/ivy_settings.xml: unable to load properties from global.properties. Tried both as an url and a file, with no success. File exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException: global.properties (No such file or directory). URL exception: java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: global.properties I can run other targets in the build file which also load this property file without problem, so it should not be related to the actual relative location of the file. I tried moving the property file around with respect to the project as an experiment with no luck. Thanks, Dave