> What would you think of the following convention
> for Commons package build.xml files?
> <property file="${basedir}/../build.proeprties">
+1
The other big win with that is that we can begin to establish conventional ways of referencing external dependencies. I.e., if I'm adding a component that depends upon j2ee.jar, and the "common" build.properties already has a property for that, then I can reference the existing property, and that's one less thing for the end-user to worry about.