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How to pass system properties that will be available to the container while executing

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It is sometime useful to pass system properties to the container that is executing. These properties are then available to the code executing in the container.

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Starting Tomcat 3.x with some System properties set in the container JVM:

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InstalledLocalContainer container = new Tomcat3xInstalledLocalContainer(
    new TomcatStandaloneLocalConfiguration("target/tomcat3x"));
container.setHome("c:/apps/jakarta-tomcat-3.3.2");

Map props = new HashMap();
props.put("mypropery", "myvalue");
container.setSystemProperties(props);

container.start();

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Starting Tomcat 3.x with some System properties set in the container JVM:

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xml
xml

<cargo containerId="tomcat3x" home="c:/apps/jakarta-tomcat-3.3.2" action="start">
  <sysproperty key="myproperty" value="myvalue"/>
</cargo>
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titleLoading system properties from a file

It is also possible to load the system properties from a file - simply use theĀ systemPropertiesFile attribute of theĀ cargo XML element.

Example using the Maven2 plugin

Starting Tomcat 3.x with some System properties set in the container JVM:

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xml
xml

<container>
  [...]
  <systemProperties>
    <myproperty>myvalue</myproperty>
  </systemProperties>
</container>