4 Replies Latest reply on May 11, 2009 4:55 AM by anders.andersen

Property / environment variables in jboss-esb.xml

blep Feb 25, 2009 7:48 AM

Hello,

I plan to deliver a portable solution based on JbossAS+JbossESB with the goal to make it work in any environment.

My problem is to set paths in jboss-esb.xml, especially for fs-bus because if the path set in the attributes is relative, then it is dependant from the path where JbossAS had been launched:
If AS had been launched by the following command:

$:/>$JBOSS_HOME/bin/run.sh

then the current AS path is /; but in case of:

$:/>cd $JBOSS_HOME/bin ;; ./run.sh

then the current AS pas is $JBOSS_HOME/bin which is not convenient to deliver a "just unzip an run" app.

Is there any way to refer to the AS installation path or to an environment variable to set a generic config? Such as for the jboss-log4j.xml which allows to refer to the log directory with ${jboss.server.log.dir} ?

Thanks

1. Re: Property / environment variables in jboss-esb.xml

kconner Feb 25, 2009 8:47 AM (in response to blep)

You can use properties within the jboss-esb.xml in the same way.

Kev
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2. Re: Property / environment variables in jboss-esb.xml

blep Feb 25, 2009 10:00 AM (in response to blep)

Works fine, thanks.
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3. Re: Property / environment variables in jboss-esb.xml

anders.andersen May 4, 2009 7:13 AM (in response to blep)

Hi,

Is it possible to specify these property variables in a configuration file somewhere? (e.g. in jbossesb-properties.xml?) I'm asking because we have a lot of variables that needs to be inserted and defining them all (maybe 20 - 30 variables) as #JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dmy.variable=myName" does not seem right.

Kind regards,

Anders.
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4. Re: Property / environment variables in jboss-esb.xml

anders.andersen May 11, 2009 4:55 AM (in response to blep)
Hi,

We found a solution to our issue, and it is very simple :-) So, if anyone are interested, the solution is simply to deploy a *properties-serrice.xml file with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE server> <server> <mbean code="org.jboss.varia.property.SystemPropertiesService" name="my:type=Service,name=MySystemProperties"> <attribute name="Properties"> my.first.property=value1 my.other.property=value2 </attribute> </mbean> </server>

And you can access the properties from any jboss xml config file by using ${my.first.property} - a nice and clean solution :-)

Kind regards,

Anders.
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