Scripts usability: --help option need not start Java ---------------------------------------------------- Key: AS7-2276 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2276 Project: Application Server 7 Issue Type: Bug Components: Scripts Affects Versions: 7.1.0.Alpha1 Environment: all Reporter: Radoslav Husar Assignee: Brian Stansberry It is not necessary to start a JVM to print out raw text on the console. This could be easily handled by the script and print the options in a clean and fast way. {code} [rhusar@rhusar jboss-as-7.0.2.Final]$ time ./bin/standalone.sh --help ========================================================================= JBoss Bootstrap Environment JBOSS_HOME: /home/rhusar/Download/jboss-as-7.0.2.Final JAVA: /home/rhusar/tools/jdk1.6.0/bin/java JAVA_OPTS: -server -Xms64m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dorg.jboss.resolver.warning=true -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000 -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true ========================================================================= 10:36:43,613 INFO [org.jboss.modules] JBoss Modules version 1.0.2.GA 10:36:43,965 INFO [stdout] Usage: ./standalone.sh [args...] 10:36:43,966 INFO [stdout] 10:36:43,968 INFO [stdout] where args include: 10:36:43,968 INFO [stdout] -b=<value> Set system property jboss.bind.address to the given value 10:36:43,969 INFO [stdout] -b <value> Set system property jboss.bind.address to the given value 10:36:43,969 INFO [stdout] -b<interface>=<value> Set system property jboss.bind.address.<interface> to the given value 10:36:43,969 INFO [stdout] -D<name>[=<value>] Set a system property 10:36:43,970 INFO [stdout] -h Display this message and exit 10:36:43,970 INFO [stdout] --help Display this message and exit 10:36:43,970 INFO [stdout] -P=<url> Load system properties from the given url 10:36:43,970 INFO [stdout] -P <url> Load system properties from the given url 10:36:43,971 INFO [stdout] --properties=<url> Load system properties from the given url 10:36:43,972 INFO [stdout] --server-config=<config> Name of the server configuration file to use (default is "standalone.xml") 10:36:43,972 INFO [stdout] -V Print version and exit 10:36:43,972 INFO [stdout] -v Print version and exit 10:36:43,973 INFO [stdout] --version Print version and exit 10:36:43,973 INFO [stdout] real 0m1.071s user 0m0.718s sys 0m0.077s {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.jboss.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira