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: 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. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3966141#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...