system-properties

Scope of the Java System Properties

Scope of the System properties At least from reading the API Specifications for the System.setProperties method, I was unable to get an answer whether the system properties are shared by all instances of the JVM or not. In order to find out, I wrote two quick programs that will set the system property via System.setProperty, … Read more

Driver executable must be set by the webdriver.ie.driver system property

You will need InternetExplorer driver executable on your system. So download it from the hinted source (http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/) unpack it and place somewhere you can find it. In my example, I will assume you will place it to C:\Selenium\iexploredriver.exe Then you have to set it up in the system. Here is the Java code pasted from … Read more

How can I specify system properties in Tomcat configuration on startup?

cliff.meyers‘s original answer that suggested using <env-entry> will not help when using only System.getProperty() According to the Tomcat 6.0 docs <env-entry> is for JNDI. So that means it won’t have any effect on System.getProperty(). With the <env-entry> from cliff.meyers‘s example, the following code System.getProperty(“SMTP_PASSWORD”); will return null, not the value “abc123ftw”. According to the Tomcat … Read more