As I've mentioned to you in private mail, you're example is way too convoluted to make much sense out of it. Please try and simplify it down to a barebones test case that gets a property from System.getProperty and uses that as a filename. Create a contrived example that will eliminate all your domain specific property names and post what you have back for us if you still have issues.
Typically the act of creating a contrived working example will shed light on the actual problem though. More comments below.... > <sysproperty key="mdb.properties.file1" > value="mdb.properties.file1.properties"/> Ok, so you've got this set and being fed into JUnit... > i have a file mdb.properties.file1.properties that has teh following line: > minitest QUESTIONFILE_minimetanet questionfile 1 Ok, again we're getting convoluted here... simplify! > here is the output: > which are parameters that i pass in for my unit test. > [junit] Running cp_test.system.TestSubmitQueryMThread > [junit] Executing: > p:\thirdparty\win32\runnable\jdk\13\jre\..\bin\java.exe - > Dmdb.properties.file=mdb.testsubmitqueryMthread.properties -Dmdb.properties. > file > 1=mdb.properties.file1.properties Ok, you can clearly see that your property is being sent into Ant's JUnitTestRunner. > [junit] TEST cp_test.system.TestSubmitQueryMThread FAILED So the failure is in your test case from what your output is showing. Without seeing those details (and we don't need to see them if you create a trivial example showing the problem) we can't tell why its failing. > BUILD SUCCESSFUL And *never ever* let a build finish successfully if tests failed!!!!! :)) Erik -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>