Environment Variable with Maven

Question

I\'ve ported a project from Eclipse to Maven and I need to set an environment variable to make my project work.

In Eclipse, I go to \"Run -> Run configurations\" and

Answer 1

Following documentation from @Kevin's answer the below one worked for me for setting environment variable with maven sure-fire plugin

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
    <environmentVariables>
        <WSNSHELL_HOME>conf</WSNSHELL_HOME>
    </environmentVariables>
</configuration>

Answer 2

You could wrap your maven command in a bash script:

#!/bin/bash

export YOUR_VAR=thevalue
mvn test
unset YOUR_VAR

Answer 3

in your code add:

System.getProperty("WSNSHELL_HOME")

Modify or add value property from maven command:

mvn clean test -DargLine=-DWSNSHELL_HOME=yourvalue

If you want to run it in Eclipse, add VM arguments in your Debug/Run configurations

• Go to Run -> Run configurations
• Select Tab Arguments
• Add in section VM Arguments

-DWSNSHELL_HOME=yourvalue

you don't need to modify the POM