I prefer having a real version.properties file (not generated), and build-messaging.xml can load those properties if it needs them from that file. During the build process we need to copy other files too e.g. jbm-connector-factories.properties, and it seems cleaner to me to just have them all as real files instead of some generated and some not. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4168822#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...