[Michael Stacey]

I have a web application that contains the following types of settings in web.xml:

<context-param>
<param-name>CONFIG_FILE</param-name>
<param-value>${foo.home}/conf/ext/ConfigAll.xml</param-value>
</context-param>

How do you set the “foo.home” system property when using the glassfish server plugin?

I’ve tried setting it as jvm properties in the server config, but the app doesn’t see the value correctly.

We’re using the glassfish 2.x server from MyEclipse on linux.

[support-shalini]

stacey11,
I shall escalate this to the dev team member. They will get back to you on this.

[Michael Stacey]

More info: works from the command line when glassfish is started with asadmin start-domain. ie: the settings in the server config are passed to the envirionment just fine.

[Brian Fernandes]

stacey,

On the JDK page, did you add -Dfoo.path=/the/path to the “Optional Java VM arguments” field?

works from the command line when glassfish is started with asadmin start-domain. ie: the settings in the server config are passed to the envirionment just fine.

Just to clarify – does this mean you edited the asadmin.bat file and added -Dfoo.path=/the/path to it?

[Michael Stacey]

Yes, I added the argument to the HDK page in MyEclipse.
Not, I did NOT editi the asadmin.bat file.

[Brian Fernandes]

More info: works from the command line when glassfish is started with asadmin start-domain. ie: the settings in the server config are passed to the envirionment just fine.

Could you please elaborate, what exactly did you do to get it to work – where did you declare this variable?

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