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    jboss.xml can't read properties set in system-properties.xml
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    created by <a href="http://community.jboss.org/people/fbricon">Fred Bricon</a> in <i>EJB 3.0</i> - <a href="http://community.jboss.org/message/547322#547322">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I'm trying to listen to a pop3 inbox from a JBoss AS 5.1 server. A (seam) mail listener configured in ejbproject.jar/META-INF/jboss.xml</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>{code:xml}</p><p>&lt;jboss&gt;<br/> &lt;enterprise-beans&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160; &lt;message-driven&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;ejb-name&gt;SomeMailService&lt;/ejb-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-name&gt;mailServer&lt;/activation-config-property-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-value&gt;${mail.receiver.mailServer}&lt;/activation-config-property-value&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-name&gt;port&lt;/activation-config-property-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-value&gt;${mail.receiver.port}&lt;/activation-config-property-value&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-name&gt;debug&lt;/activation-config-property-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-value&gt;${mail.receiver.debug}&lt;/activation-config-property-value&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-name&gt;mailFolder&lt;/activation-config-property-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-value&gt;${mail.receiver.mailFolder}&lt;/activation-config-property-value&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-name&gt;storeProtocol&lt;/activation-config-property-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-value&gt;${mail.receiver.storeProtocol}&lt;/activation-config-property-value&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-name&gt;flush&lt;/activation-config-property-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-value&gt;${mail.receiver.flush}&lt;/activation-config-property-value&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-name&gt;userName&lt;/activation-config-property-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-value&gt;${mail.receiver.userName}&lt;/activation-config-property-value&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-name&gt;password&lt;/activation-config-property-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;activation-config-property-value&gt;${mail.receiver.password}&lt;/activation-config-property-value&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config-property&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/activation-config&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;resource-adapter-name&gt;mail-ra.rar&lt;/resource-adapter-name&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160; &lt;/message-driven&gt;<br/> &lt;/enterprise-beans&gt;</p><p>{code}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>The properties are defined in ${JBOSS_HOME}/server/default/conf/mail.receiver.properties and loaded via ${JBOSS_HOME}/server/default/deploy/system-properties.xml</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>{code:xml}</p><p>&lt;mbean code="org.jboss.varia.property.SystemPropertiesService" <br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; name="jboss:type=Service,name=SystemProperties"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;attribute name="URLList"&gt;<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; ./conf/mail.receiver.properties<br/>&#160;&#160;&#160; &lt;/attribute&gt;</p><p>&lt;/mbean&gt;</p><p>{code}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Upon server startup, properties are correctly loaded :</p><p>{code}</p><p>12:00:07,902 INFO&#160; [SystemPropertiesService] Loaded system properties from: file:/P:/opt/JBoss/jboss-as-5.0.1.GA-jdk6/server/default/conf/mail.receiver.properties</p><p>{code}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>BUT, it seems the mailListener isn't aware of that fact :</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>{code}12:15:22,321 ERROR [MailActivation] Failed to execute folder check, spec=MailActivationSpec(mailServer=${mail.receiver.server}, storeProtocol=${mail.receiver.storeProtocol}, mailFolder=${mail.receiver.mailFolder}, pollingInterval=60000, messageSelector=null, userName=${mail.receiver.userName}, maxMessages=1, debug=false, starttls=false, port=0){code}</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I've checked in another class, the system properties are actually loaded :</p><p>&lt;code&gt;System.err.println("${mail.receiver.mailFolder}:" + System.getProperty("mail.receiver.mailFolder"));&lt;/code&gt; correctly returns INBOX</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Setting properties via &lt;attribute name="Properties"&gt; in system-properties doesn't work either.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Passing properties from the command line work as expected ( -Dmail.receiver.server=someserver) -hopefully-</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>I'm missing something with system-properties.xml? Seems like a bug to me.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>regards,</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Fred Bricon</p></div>

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