anonymous wrote : The application is a Java WebStart application. The Java Webstart application runs in its own JVM and hence wont have the system properties available on the server. The application server runs in its own JVM and if you use the System.getProperty from the code which runs on the server JVM then you will get the desired output (as you can see from the logs which you posted): anonymous wrote : 11:41:33,500 INFO [Server] Server Home Dir: C:\JAVA\jboss-4.0.5.GA\server\default View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131512#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...