system-properties

In Java we use System.setProperty() method to set some system properties. According to this article the use of system properties is bit tricky. System.setProperty() can be an evil call. It is 100% thread-hostile It contains super-global variables It is extremely difficult to debug when these variables mysteriously change at runtime. My questions are as follows. How about the scope of the system properties? Are they specific for each and every Virtual Machine or they have a "Super Global nature" that shares the same set of properties over Each and every virtual machine instance? I guess the

I am using Selenium for automating the tests. My application exclusively uses IE, it will not work on other Browsers. Code: import org.openqa.selenium.ie.InternetExplorerDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.By; import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { final String sUrl = "http://www.google.co.in/"; System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\Users\\vthaduri\\workspace\\LDCSuite\\IEDriverServer.exe"); WebDriver oWebDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(); oWebDriver.get(sUrl); WebElement

Is there a way ( I mean how do I ) set a system property in a maven project? I want to access a property from my test and my webapp ( running locally ) and I know I can use a java system property. Should I put that in ./settings.xml or something like that? Context I took an open source project and managed to change the db configuration to use JavaDB Now, in the jdbc url for JavaDB, the location of the database could be specified as the full path ( see: this other question ) Or a system property: derby.system.home I have the code working already, but currently it is all hardcoded to: jdbc:derby

I understand that I can specify system properties to Tomcat by passing arguments with the -D parameter, for example " -Dmy.prop=value ". I am wondering if there is a cleaner way of doing this by specifying the property values in the context.xml file or some other tomcat configuration file. I would like to do this because, first, it is easier to keep track of my properties, and second, I have multiple contexts running and I don't know how I would specify context-specific properties through the -D parameter. I am using Tomcat version 5.5. (Update: If I could delete this answer I would, although