ANT question regarding Env Variable?

[R]

I have an ANT build file that is shared among many programmers that
has this in it...
....
<property name="jboss.deploydir"
location="C:\programming\jboss-3.2.0\server\default\deploy\"/>
....

My question: Not every developer in my group has the jboss-3.2.0/
directory underneath "/programming". If I was to setup a system
"evironment" variable called "JBOSS_HOME", how could I change my build
to use the contents of this variable instead of hardcoding the
"crogramming\jboss-3.2.0....".

I know this is a newbie question... but I've checked the Jakarta
project for docs and it still isn't clear. BTW, I'm using ANT via
Eclipse 2.1.0

Thanks!!!

 

[David Zimmerman]

I have an ANT build file that is shared among many programmers that
has this in it...
...
<property name="jboss.deploydir"
location="C:\programming\jboss-3.2.0\server\default\deploy\"/>
...

My question: Not every developer in my group has the jboss-3.2.0/
directory underneath "/programming". If I was to setup a system
"evironment" variable called "JBOSS_HOME", how could I change my build
to use the contents of this variable instead of hardcoding the
"crogramming\jboss-3.2.0....".

Put these lines near the top of your build.xml

<!-- use global properties for this build -->
<property environment="ENV"/>

They instruct ant to map all the environment variables to the prefix
'ENV' (which you can change)

Then you can reference any environment variable by preceding it with
that prefix, EG location="$ENV.JBOSS_HOME\server\default\deploy"