Maven properties are not like Ant properties
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Key: MNGSITE-141
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-141
Project: Maven Project Web Site
Issue Type: Bug
Environment: http://maven.apache.org/settings.html#Properties
Reporter: Larry West
Priority: Minor
The text says "Maven properties are value placeholder, like properties in Ant."
This is incorrect. Ant properties generally cannot be changed. Maven
documentation is oddly silent on this crucial point -- I cannot imagine how
many hours have been wasted by this -- but in my tests, Maven 3 does change the
value of properties.
It's a huge difference in functionality, and a surprise to anyone coming from
Ant, and that line exacerbates the problem.
The fix: append this text: ", except that Maven properties are NOT immutable,
which is to say attempts to change (user-defined) properties will succeed."
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