Article:		Flexible User and Environment Ant Configuration
Subject:		My thoughts on your article
Date:		2004-05-27 15:08:56
From:		indrayam
Nice article Grant. btw, I have posted a few thoughts on my blog about your article (and your proposed approach) in case you're interested: <br/> http://indrayam.com/archives/application_development/000215.php

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• My thoughts on your article
  2004-05-27 17:55:59  gjbremer [Reply | View]
  
  
  In the blog entry above, Anand discovered an Achilles heel of sorts with my approach and illustrates the problem with a nice example. As mentioned above, properties are immutable once set. Therefore, if you define path elements outside of a target element and use a property to define them, the property used in the target will never receive a value from a properties file. With my approach, I always define path elements within a target and after I have loaded the properties. Please read Anand's blog entry for a more detailed explanation.