We need to test various components inside of legacy releases of JBossAS, like JBossCache, JBossWS, etc. Right now, this involves either modifying the build-thirdparty.xml to update the version, or replacing the binaries ?by hand.?
I?d like to be able to override a version using a property, so that I can do something like this:
./build.sh ?propfile myversion.properties most
where myversion.properties is:
jgroups.version=2.2.9.1
jboss/cache.version=1.4.0.SP1
The solution is to externalize the versions from the current build-thirdparty.xml so that instead of:
<componentref name="jboss/cache"
version="1.2.3.1" />
You would have:
<componentref name="jboss/cache"
version="${jboss/cache.version}" />
and a thirdparty-versions.properties which would have a bunch of:
jboss/cache.version=1.2.3.1
This is the most natural solution and it would be functionally equivalent to the one we have today.
