On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:19:09PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Edwin Punzalan on 28/06/05 10:57, wrote: > >I will be quoting the maven site: > >http://maven.apache.org/reference/properties.html > > > >The properties files in Maven are processed in the following order: > > > > 1. Built-in properties are processed > > 2. |${basedir}/project.properties| (|basedir| is replaced by the > > directory where the |project.xml| file in use resides) > > 3. |${basedir}/build.properties| > > 4. |${user.home}/build.properties| > > 5. System properties > > I always wanted to know: what's the purpose of having project.properties > AND build.properties? Is it purely for ease of conversion from ant?
build.properties are for user specific overrides and are typically not stored in your SCM (eg: cvs, svn) while project.properties are. http://maven.apache.org/reference/properties.html -- Trygve
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