How to over-write the property in Ant?

Question

Is there a way to re-assign the value for the Ant property task? Or is there another task available for that purpose?

Answer 1

You can't change the value of a property in Ant.

If you have some Ant tasks you want to run repeatedly passing in different values I recommend the macrodef task as you can run the same macro repeatedly passing in different attributes.

For example:

Note that ${property} is used to reference properties and @{attribute} is used to reference the attributes passed to the task.