property immutability -AGAIN!

["Dmitri G. Chtchekine" <dg...@emory.edu>]

OK, I don't want to 'beat a dead horse' about
should a property be immutable or not. I just 
want to throw a scenario at you and ask to make
comments on how to accomplish this task without changing 
property's value.

My build reads several properties from a file,
one of them is deployment.box which is the name of the box where I want 
my code to be deployed (via FTP). Here is an example:
  <target name="push" depends="init" if="deploy">
	<ftp server="${deployment.box}"
	    userid="${ftp.id}"
	    password="${ftp.password}"
	    remotedir="${deploy.dir}">
		<fileset dir="${build.dir}">
			<include name="${package.root}\**"/>
		</fileset>
	</ftp>
 </target>

Now, as far as there is only one box where I want to push the 
code everything is clear. But now I want to push code to several
boxes in one build. This can be easily accomplished by changing
the value of deployment.box property.
How would you suggest I do this without changing property value ?
(Evidently using separate property for each box will result in code
duplication.)
I hope that this problem is general enough and I am looking forward
to your comments.
Dmitri


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Re: property immutability -AGAIN!

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@apache.org>]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2001, Dmitri G. Chtchekine <dg...@emory.edu> wrote:

> How would you suggest I do this without changing property value ?

Use <antcall> to invoke that target, use nested <param>s inside the
<antcall>s with different values for the property that needs to be
changed.

Stefan

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