I wanted to use property substitution with default values in server.xml, for example I want to _optionally_ define a property server.ports.https with default value 8443. Putting ${server.ports.https:8443} in server.xml doesn't work even though the same syntax works elsewhere in jboss configuration files. Is this a known thing/can anyone replicate the issue? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4091637#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...