[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Closed: (JBAS-3637) twiddle ignores environment properties when creating its InitialContext

twiddle ignores environment properties when creating its InitialContext ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JBAS-3637 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBAS-3637 Project: JBoss Application Server Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Management services Affects Versions: JBossAS-4.2.0.GA Reporter: Owen Taylor Assigned To: Jimmy Wilson Priority: Minor Fix For: JBossAS-5.0.0.CR1, JBossAS-4.2.3.GA The original feature request: ======================================================================= It is frequently useful to be able to set JDNI properties when running twiddle - for example, you might want to set jnp.disableDiscovery when checking the status of a particular server that might not be running. Right now, this is difficult to do. You can export a JBOSS_CLASSPATH which contains a jndi.properties file before running twiddle.sh, but then you have to include all the standard jars in it, which is quite annoying. A pssible fixes would be one of: A) A way to prepend elements to JBOSS_CLASSPATH without disabling the default construction (also useful for getting a log4j.properties that doesn't drop twiddle.log in the cwd, perhaps) B) A command line option for specifying a particular properties file to load and pass to 'new InitialContext()' (slightly more convenient than A) C) A command line option to define particular properties: twiddle.sh -jnpProperty=jnp.disableDiscovery=true (Or some better syntax) The twiddle code actually does: Properties props = new Properties(System.getProperties()); props.put(Context.PROVIDER_URL, serverURL); ctx = new InitialContext(props); In the case where a server URL is set, so there may have been intention that twiddle.sh -Djnp.disableDiscovery=true would work, but AFAIK property inheritance doesn't work in that place - only the properties directly in props take effect, and system properties won't be looked at in the other code path either. =========================================================== The real problem is that twiddle ignores environment properties when creating its InitialContext. By fixing this you can just specify in the command line: -Djnp.disableDiscovery