setting user.dir system property in JBoss 5.1

Question

In JBoss 4.2.3 the System property 'user.dir' is defined to be

<JBoss-root>/bin

when I ran the same application on JBoss 5.1 I noticed that it cannot find the System property user.dir

why there is no default definition for version 5.1?
and how can I define it manually? I followed this suggestion and added my property into properties-service.xml but it had no affect and still JBoss couldn't find the system:user.dir value.

Answer 1

This works for me. Did you notice that the Properties attribute in properties-service.xml is commented out by default?

Answer 2

This is the solution to my problem. I didn't describe the proeblem correctly in this thread.