The fact that new system properties are not found by the services until after you reboot the PC is not a JBoss Native bug - it is the operating system, and specifically the service manager, that is not registering the env var changes until a reboot. Therefore you should not have opened a JIRA. There is nothing that the JBoss team can do to fix this. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4166692#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...