Hi!

Can anyone explain why the JavaDoc on Properties says:

"A property list can contain another property list as its "defaults";
this second property list is searched if the property key is not found
in the original property list."

and:

public Properties(Properties defaults)
Creates an empty property list with the specified defaults.

But when I write the following:

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class PropTest{

      private Properties props = null;

      public PropTest(){

              // Set defaults
              Properties defaults = new Properties();
              defaults.setProperty("Test1", "Default value for Test1");

              // Create global properties with defaults
              props = new Properties(defaults);

              // Set property (same result as with
props.load(propfile))
              props.setProperty("Test2","New value for test2");

              System.out.println("Test1 : "+props.get("Test1"));
              System.out.println("Test2 : "+props.get("Test2"));
      }
      public static void main(String[] args){
              PropTest p = new PropTest();    
      }
}

I get the output:

Test1 : null
Test2 : New value for test2

where I would expect Test1 to yield: "Default value for Test1"

I am using java version 1.4.1_01_b01

Thanks in advance for any comments!

Best regards
Martin

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