Radim Hanus [http://community.jboss.org/people/rhanus] created the discussion "The replacement of system properties in *-ds.xml is done only for elements of string value type" To view the discussion, visit: http://community.jboss.org/message/578115#578115 -------------------------------------------------------------- h3. synopsis * enterprise application deployed in jboss-5.1 * would like to use <max-pool-size>${myapp.db.maxPoolSize}</max-pool-size> in myapp.ear/my-ds.xml * ends up with maxPoolSize == 0 h3. story behind I encountered this problem while staging my ear from devel to loadtests and then production usage I had an idea I would use a parameter for max-pool-size attribute and set it in accompanying property-service.xml so that I would have one deployment and several property-service.xml files based on target environment but it ends up with zero value of maxPoolSize I have searched the forum as well as issue tracker and found this problem as unresolved: * http://community.jboss.org/message/296436#296436 http://community.jboss.org/message/296436#296436 * https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPAPP-4539 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBPAPP-4539 * https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8344 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBAS-8344 * https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBJCA-263 https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBJCA-263 h3. suggested solution having some spare time during christmas I dived into connector source codes and hopefully found a non-invasive way how to solve it all magic is done in ManagedConnectionFactoryParserDeployer.parse() and it's matter of JAXB definitelly I suggest to define specific @XmlJavaTypeAdapter adapters for non-string "primitive" fileds (int, long, boolean, Boolean) of ManagedConnectionFactoryDeploymentMetaData These adapters in their unmarsal methods would call StringPropertyReplacer.replaceProperties() in accordance with PropertyEditorManager.findEditor() I tried to implement such a fix and it works for me but didn't run against testsuite yet BTW quick look at source codes for 6.0 final and prety sure there is the same problem -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [http://community.jboss.org/message/578115#578115] Start a new discussion in IronJacamar at Community [http://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]