I understand that I can specify system properties to Tomcat by passing arguments with the -D parameter, for example "-Dmy.prop=value". I am wondering if there is a cleaner way of doing this by specifying the property values in the context.xml file or some other tomcat configuration file. I would like to do this because, first, it is eas...
I have an application that communicate with multiple hosts at the same time. In this case I need to use multiple keystores to establish communication with other hosts. In this case setting the system property "javax.net.ssl.keyStore" is problematic. I found an earlier post that discusses the problem well. Then what would be the best ap...
We use the command line to pass on system properties to the Java virtual machine when running our Hudson builds on a Linux box. It used to work quite well in 2.0.9 by since we upgraded to 2.1.0 it has stopped working altogether. The system properties just never make it to the Java virtual machine. I have created a small test projec...
In Java we use System.setProperty() method to set some system properties. According to this article the use of system properties is bit tricky. System.setProperty() can be an evil call. * It is 100% thread-hostile * It contains super-global variables * It is extremely difficult to debug when these variables mysteriously change at r...
I have a List<String> of file names from a folder and a certain file name as String. I want to detect whether the file name is in the list, but need to respect the underlying file system's property of whether it is case-sensitive. Is there any easy way to do this (other than the "hack" of checking System.getProperty("os.name", "").toLow...
How do I change the user.home system property from outside my java program, so that it thinks it's a different directory from D:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%? Via environment variables, or VM arguments? ...
According to the App Engine documentation, you can set system properties and environment variables for your app in the deployment descriptor and App Engine sets the following system properties when it initializes the JVM on an app server: * file.separator * path.separator * line.separator * java.version * java.vendor * java.vendor.url *...
My application needs to know the path to a directory where it can store its data. I tried to set a Java system property and use that variable as a placeholder in my Spring XML. In Eclipse I added that property to the environment of my run configuration and it works just fine. Spring resolves ${dataDir} to the correct path. But when I t...
Hello, I have to execute my program with this line: java -DImport=data.txt -Din=input.dat -Dout=output1.dat main.Main I've been trying to figure it out how to do this but can't really get it working. I'm using Netbeans since I dont really get along with unix terminal classpaths and so on. public static void main(String[] args) { ...
I've been inspired by another question: Best Practice for Using Java System Properties I'm currently looking for a complete list of Java system properties and possible values. I'm working on a simple class to simplify use of them (If you're interested, get the source and background info (my blog)). With this class, I try to provide the ...
The services defined in my jboss-esb.xml refer to properties from the SystemProperties service. When I change a property in the properties file (ie, /conf/my-props.properties) I can reload them using the SystemProperties MBean. I am unsure, however, how to get the services to reload using the new properties without redeploying the esb ...
Does anyone know the value of the Java system property "os.name" on Windows Server 2008? I found a rally going here (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1803075/crowdsourcing-a-complete-list-of-common-java-system-properties-and-known-values), but nothing on Windows Server 2008. Any help is appreciated. ...
We have a Java application that we need to ignore an expired self-signed cert, however we cannot modify the code to do this. I wondering if there was a System Property or environment variable that we could provide at start up that would allow us to have all expired cert's ignored for now, or even be more specific and provide externally ...
Hello, I am developing a file-api app on Sony P1i. I used the following System properties to get the images, tones folder names/paths but all are returning null.... System.getProperty("fileconn.dir.photos") System.getProperty("fileconn.dir.photos.name") System.getProperty("fileconn.dir.tones.name") System.getProperty("fileconn.dir.tone...
I'm sure I'm missing something really simple... I want to set the system property java.awt.headless to true for my sbt project. Reading the page on properties I think that I need to use system or systemOptional. In my project file I've tried things like: lazy val javaAwtHeadless = system[Boolean]("java.awt.headless") Setting it as a u...
How can I pass a system property to jetty startup something like -DSERVER="localhost" if it is in start.config what is the exact syntax ? and will it be available to my deployed war with this System.getProperty("SERVER") ? thnx in advance ...
Is there a way ( I mean how do I ) set a system property in a maven project? I want to access a property from my test and my webapp ( running locally ) and I know I can use a java system property. Should I put that in ./settings.xml or something like that? Context I took an open source project and managed to change the db configurat...
I have a bash script (.sh file) and a Python script (.py) file in the same directory. Both have the svn:executable permission. However when I do an 'svn update', only the Bash script gets executable permission set. Any ideas why? (If I manually set the permission on the Python script it runs fine.) DOH! Turns out I had a typo. It had t...
Which system information are useful - especially when tracing an exception or other problems down - in a java application? I am thinking about details about exceptions, java/os information, memory/object consumptions, io information, environment/enchodings etc. ...
I have following pom.xml <project> <properties> <buildNumber>dev</buildNumber> </properties> <build> <finalName>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-${buildNumber}</finalName> </build> </project> This works fine on development machine. If I run mvn package I've got project-1.1-dev.war artifact. If I run mvn package...