Wolf-Dieter Fink [http://community.jboss.org/people/wdfink] created the discussion "Re: how to pass parameters to ds.xml from jboss startup script?" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/627808#627808 -------------------------------------------------------------- replace the value with ${<your variable name>:<your default>} e.g. minPoolsize  ==> <min-pool-size>${my.min.pool.size:5}</min-pool-size> in that case you can add -Dmy.min.pool.size=10 to the JVM start (e.g. to run.conf JAVA_OPTS) or start run.sh -Dmy.min.pool.size=10 -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/627808#627808] Start a new discussion in Datasource Configuration at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]