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Subject: Properties, filters and Buildmagic Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 20:15:55 +0000 From: Jason Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] It appears that there is some confusion on properties and filters and how they work with Buildmagic, so I hope this clears things up. Any properties defined in outside of a target, in the configure target or included from build/local.properties are automatically turned into filters. This means that you should define your properties in these locations and avoid using the <filter/> task as it just complicates the build file. Properties defined in build/local.properties will override most of the properties used in the build file. This is where users define overrides for properties to control the behavior of the build. For example, to change the default type mapping for jaws & jbosscmp: default.type.mapping=Oracle8 Now when you (re)build the configuration files will use this value when copying. This is the prefered method for changing configuration values that are local to your enviroment. Put defaults into build.xml in the configure target, then optionaly put commented examples into build/etc/local.properties-example. This file is automatically installed as build/local.propertes if the file does not exist and will be included by all builds (even sub-module builds which were not started by build/build.[sh|bat]. The reason for this is to avoid checking in your local changes which may break someone elses environment (which can happen from time to time if you need to change a config file and forget it was modfied and then accidentically check it in when commiting something comletly different). If you have any questions about this please let me know, --jason ------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Jboss-development mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
