"jhalliday" wrote : OK, so I can do it by injection but I need to retain the compile time dependency anyhow in order to have the correct default. Ah well, I guess I just have to live with an extra .jar in by compile time classpath for now. | No you don't. You can provide the default in the config, e.g. | <property name="bindAddress">${jboss.bind.address:127.0.0.1}</property> | But for the bindAddress, the default is redundant. A long time ago we fixed it such that the system property was always set during the bootstrap. See the horrible hack at the top org.jboss.Main ;-) | Getopt getopt = new Getopt(programName, args, sopts, lopts); | int code; | String arg; | | HERE !!! | | props.setProperty(ServerConfig.SERVER_BIND_ADDRESS, "127.0.0.1"); | System.setProperty(ServerConfig.SERVER_BIND_ADDRESS, "127.0.0.1"); | while ((code = getopt.getopt()) != -1) | { | ... | case 'b': | arg = getopt.getOptarg(); | props.put(ServerConfig.SERVER_BIND_ADDRESS, arg); | System.setProperty(ServerConfig.SERVER_BIND_ADDRESS, arg); | ... | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4152377#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...