JBoss Properties

There are a number of properties used by the micro-kernel during the bootstrap.

This documentation is heavily plagiarized from org.jboss.system.server.ServerConfig.

Bootstrap Configuration

• jboss.boot.library.list - The basic jars used to bootstrap the kernel, there are other jars used (TODO explain) - default value log4j-boot.jar, jboss-common.jar, jboss-system.jar

• jboss.server.type - The fully qualified class name of the org.jboss.system.server.Server implementation - default: org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl

• jboss.server.root.deployment.filename - The file to deploy at the end of the bootstrap, relative to the config url - default: jboss-service.xml

   

Directories and urls

• jboss.home.dir - The base directory of the jboss distribution - default: $JBOSS_HOME

   

• jboss.home.url - The base url of the jboss distribution - default $JBOSS_HOME

   

• jboss.lib.url - The url where the kernel jars exist - default: $jboss.home.url/lib

   

• jboss.patch.url - A directory where patch jars exist - default: none

   

• jboss.server.name - The configuration name of the server - default: default

   

• jboss.server.base.dir - The directory where server configurations exist - default: $jboss.home.dir/server

   

• jboss.server.base.url - The url where server configurations exist - default: $jboss.home.url/server

   

• jboss.server.home.dir - The directory for the current configuration - default: $jboss.server.base.dir/$jboss.server.name

   

• jboss.server.home.url - The url for the current configuration - default: $jboss.server.base.url/$jboss.server.name

   

• jboss.server.temp.dir - The directory for temporary files - default: $jboss.server.home.dir/tmp

   

• jboss.server.data.dir - The directory for data files - default: $jboss.server.home.dir/data

   

• jboss.server.config.url - The url for configuration files - default: $jboss.server.home.url/conf

   

• jboss.server.lib.url - The url for static jar files - default: $jboss.server.home.url/lib

   

• jboss.server.log.dir - The directory where the server logs are written - default: $jboss.server.home.dir/log

   

Other config

• jboss.bind.address - The host name or ip address for jboss services to bind to - default: 0.0.0.0 = "any" NIC - (v4.2.), 127.0.0.1 = localhost only

• jboss.partition.name - The cluster partition - default DefaultPartition

• jboss.partition.udpGroup - (since v4.0.3) The udp group - no default

• jboss.server.exitonshutdown - Whether JBoss should do System.exit() on a shutdown - default true

• jboss.server.blockingshutdown - Whether JBoss should do shutdown synchronously (true) or asynchronously (false) - default false

• jboss.server.requirejbossurlstreamhandlerfactory - When true an error is thrown if the jboss stream handlers could not be installed - default true

• jboss.server.temp.dir.overrideJavaTmpDir - (since v3.2.3) whether to override the main java temporary directory (java.io.tmpdir) to the server temporary directory - default false

• jboss.shutdown.forceHalt - (since v3.0.1) force a Runtime.getRuntime().halt() at the end of the jboss shutdown hook - default true

• jboss.native.load - whether to to load the native libraries unpacked from deployments - default false

• jboss.native.dir - location to unpack native libraries in deployments - default tmp/native

Non JBoss properties

• log4j.configuration - override the location of the log4j bootstrap configuration

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