[jboss-as7-dev] Changed arguments…can we do better ? :P

[William Louth (JINSPIRED.COM)]

Hi Max,

Yes the existence of this system property already in the script is a 
pain for integration with our metering engine as well as other code 
profiling solutions.

Kind regards,

William

On 01/02/2012 12:38, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Going over the AS7.1 server and how startup arguments has changed we noticed besides the -logmodule not being needed
> the following two was added:
>
>   -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true
>
> Does the -Djava.awt.headless=true have any function besides maybe give a few milliseconds faster startup ?
> (asking since this prevents you to launch (for debugging purposes) hsqldb admin and other swing based "inspection" tools)
>
> And last I asked about adding jboss.modules.system.pkgs= arguments to better support common tools that uses java agents such as JProfiler, yourkit, byteman and others
> it was said we shouldn't add these specific ones since then we were choosing one over the other ;)
>
> Any reason why byte man gets added and not the others ?
>
> And couldn't we solve this in a better way by having jboss modules look for a property file to pick these up instead of command line arguments ?
> i.e. anything found in<cwd>/jboss-modules.properties is added to system properties before it starts loading its actual module + treat jboss.modules.arguments as additional arguments ?
>
> Can't remove the need for  -Djava.awt.headless but would remove need for many of the other custom settings.
>
> I can submit a patch that does this if interested.
>
> /max
> http://about.me/maxandersen
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