Our application is deployed in websphere and uses lots of custom jvm properties. Right now we are adding the properties one by one through admin console.
This is a pain during development phase. Because every day after syncing their code, each and every developer needs to find out if a new property has been added/renamed and do those changes in their own console. Else the application wont start.
It also takes a lot of application setup time, while deploying to various testing environments.
Could you help me identify the place where websphere stores these custom properties? We are thinking of writing a code to update that file (?) directly instead of adding one by one through admin console.
Please help.
P.S:- We are not allowed to use jython in our local :(
In the server.xml configuration for that given server, located somewhere like
Dmgr/config/cells/cellName/nodes/nodeName/servers/server1/server.xml
You can inspect the <processDefinitions> element and add a "systemProperties" stanza like:
<systemProperties xmi:id="Property_1460665921900" name="someName" value="someValue" required="false"/>
DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. The "Property_1112223334445" part is fragile, and you need to make sure it has a unique 13-digit number at the end.
Or, you can modify the "genericJvmArguments" tag in the same file, using a format more like -DsomeName=someValue
Finally, if you do have jacl scripting access, there is an article on updating using scripting here.