You can pass property values while invocation with
   ant -Dpropname=propvalue
or you can ask the user for a value with <input> task.

If you want to have multiple configurations (config as a collection
of several properties) use property files. 
    <property file="${config}.properties"/>
    <property file="default.properties"/>
Then you can use -Dconfig=test for reading the values for test
environment...



Jan


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashutosh Sharma [mailto:ashutosh.sharma@oracle.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 12:11 PM
> To: user@ant.apache.org
> Subject: can i pass some other parameters while executing any ant
> targets
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I am quite new to ant.
> While executing some of the target-i want to specify some other 
> parameters like classpath becoz some of the java source code 
> files uses 
> old-deprecated APIs.
> How can i do it?
> Here is the portion of my build.xml-which i want to run
> !-- Compiles and runs the system tests remotely using 
> oracle.AllTest -->
>   <target name="runSystemTests" depends="build-stutils, 
> run-condition" 
> unless="cond-is-true">
>    <mkdir dir="${build.test.systemTest}"/>
>     <javac srcdir="${systemTest}"
>            destdir="${build.test.systemTest}"
>            fork="true"
>            excludes="${excludedSystemTest}"
>            debug="true"
>            
> classpath="${build};${build.test.systemTest};${libraries_systemTest}"
>                      deprecation="off" >
>            <include name="oracle/AllTest.java"/>
>            <include name="oracle/AllTestSecurity.java"/>
>            <include name="oracle/apps/ctb/**/**"/>
>    </javac>
>     <copy todir="${build.test.systemTest}" >
>       <fileset dir="props" >
>         <include name="jndi.properties"/>
>       </fileset>
>     </copy>
>     <copy todir="${build.test.systemTest}" overwrite="yes">
>       <fileset dir="${systemTest}" >
>         <include name="**/*.properties"/>
>       </fileset>
>     </copy>
>     <java classname="oracle.AllTest" 
> classpath="${build.test.systemTest};${libraries_systemTest.runtime}" 
> fork="yes">
>       <arg value="${moduleName}"/>
>       <jvmarg value="-DScriptDir=${test}/scripts/"/>
>       <jvmarg value="-DClientMode=remote"/>
>       <jvmarg value="-DDataDir=${systemTest}/data/"/>
>       <jvmarg value="-Djbo.323.compatible=true"/>
>       <jvmarg value="-Djbo.debugoutput=silent"/>
>       <jvmarg value="-DDBCFile=${DBCSystemTestFile}"/>      
> <!-- this is 
> used to run scripts to the DB from the client side 
> (load/unload data)-->
>       <jvmarg value="-DTimingFileText=${SystemTestTimingFileText}"/>
>       <jvmarg value="-DTimingFileHtml=${SystemTestTimingFileHtml}"/>
>       <jvmarg 
> value="-DTimingFileAppendFlag=${SystemTestTimingFileAppendFlag}"/>
>       <jvmarg 
> value="-DENCOUNTER_DEPENDENCIES_ON=${SystemTestEncounterDepend
> encies}"/>
>       <jvmarg value="-DETSConfig=${SystemTestETSConfig}"/>
>       <jvmarg 
> value="-DETS_CLIENT_LOG_LEVEL=${SystemTestETSClientLogLevel}"/>
>     </java>
>   </target>
> 
> I want to include some more classpath also?
> 
> -- 
> ===================
> With best regards :
> 
> Ashutosh Sharma
> Oracle India Development Center,
> Prestige Blue Chip, #9, Hosur Road,
> Bangalore 560029
> Email: ashutosh.sharma@oracle.com
> AOL IM :AshutoshOracle
> Phone: 080-51083937
> Locaton : 4A 181
> 
> 
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