diff --git a/proposal/embed/src/java/org/apache/tools/ant/RuntimeConfigurable2.java b/proposal/embed/src/java/org/apache/tools/ant/RuntimeConfigurable2.java
index f05f853af..c16d0d1ec 100644
--- a/proposal/embed/src/java/org/apache/tools/ant/RuntimeConfigurable2.java
+++ b/proposal/embed/src/java/org/apache/tools/ant/RuntimeConfigurable2.java
@@ -261,10 +261,10 @@ public class RuntimeConfigurable2 extends RuntimeConfigurable {
         }
         
         if (characters.length() != 0) {
-            // First do substitution. This allows <echo>Message</echo> to work
-            // like <echo message="..." />. And it's more fun.
+//             // First do substitution. This allows <echo>Message</echo> to work
+//             // like <echo message="..." />. And it's more fun.
             String txt=characters.toString();
-            txt=ph.replaceProperties( txt );
+//             txt=ph.replaceProperties( txt );
             ProjectHelper.addText(p, wrappedObject, txt);
             characters.setLength(0);
         }
diff --git a/proposal/embed/test.xml b/proposal/embed/test.xml
index 4ede778d8..450ac5b98 100644
--- a/proposal/embed/test.xml
+++ b/proposal/embed/test.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,12 @@
   <property name="ant.src" location="../.."/>
         
   <import file="build.xml"/>
-  
-  <echo>Base.path from build.xml ( in top level ): ${base.path}</echo>
+
+  <!-- This is a tricky problem: import will append tasks at the
+    end of the task list. That's a bug, it should replace the
+    <import> task with the content. When fixed, this should show
+    the real value. --> 
+  <echo message="Base.path from build.xml ( in top level ): ${base.path}"/>
   
   <target name="init">
      <property name="junit.jar" location="${base.path}/junit3.7/junit.jar"/>
@@ -84,7 +88,7 @@
     <echo message="jxPath /references/myJars: ${jxpath:/references/myJars}" />
 
     <!-- This is XMLDOM.java - a datatype that holds an xml DOM  -->
-    <typedef name="xmldom" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.types.XMLDOM"/>
+    <typedef name="xmldom" classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.XMLDOM"/>
 
     <!-- Init XMLDOM. The DOM of file test.xml will be referenced via the id-->
     <xmldom id="test.xml" file="test.xml"/>