#2 Can properties from propertiesfile be defined anywhere?

[David Corley]

Its not clear on the website whether the properties you
can declare and assign values to in the propertiesFile
can be declared and have their values set anywhere.
For instance can I declare the following in my ant
build.xml?
<property name="qalab.merge.action" value="replace" />

and will qalab then pick it up?

Or do I specifically have to declare it in a properties
file and tell qalab about that properties file?