----- Original Message -----
From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: RE: Explicit values only in properties file?
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Rosenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > I am not sure I understand exactly what you want to do,
> > but you certainly can reference previously defined properties
> > within a properties file, and preserve the same ordering
> > that is required for your scripting to work
>
> No, order is unimportant. Forward references are resolved.
>
Yes, I stand corrected, forward references within a given properties
file are resolved. But references that span a series of properties
files will not behave that way, so, the loading of properties
files is order dependent, which is compatible with the notion
that the evaluating of <property> tags is also order dependent
at run-time......
So, individual properties declared within a properties file behave
differently than the properties declared directly in the xml. We
should be thinking of properties declared in files as a self-resolving
group of properties. Properties declared outside the group
won't have that behavior.
Any plans to make all property loading non-order dependent?
That really would float the declarative boat, wouldn't it?
> > , since, after
> > all, we are all scripting here.
> >
>
> whatever floats you boat.
>
My boat is not out of dry dock yet.
