You need to use <jvmarg> for -D arguments. -D args are passed to the JVM,
not to your program directly.
K.C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Bridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 5:52 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Problem with <ARG>: ends up in wrong place?
>
>
> I have a problem with the "arg" entity within the "java" tag. When it
> executes the jdk, it places the argument after the target class file,
> rather than before. Right or wrong, when I run this (at least with
> IBM-JDK1.3), java doesn't recognize that anything has been passed
> to it with the "-D" argument. However, if I type this from the
> command line and put the "-D" BEFORE the class name, it works fine.
>
> I also tried the deprecated "args" attribute, but that has the
> same problem.
>
> Is this something that should be fixed within ant? Or is there
> a workaround?
>
> Here's the target from ant:
>
> <property name="configfileargs"
> value="-Dmtl.config=file:///home/bridge/gsnet/WEB-INF/edm.dev.
> properties"/>
> ...
>
> <target name="test" depends="compile">
> <java classname="com.gsnet.business.bo.TestIt" dir="."
> fork="yes">
> <classpath refid="project.class.path"/>
> <arg line="${configfileargs}"/>
> </java>
> </target>
>
>
> And here's the result from "ant -verbose test"
>
> test:
> [java] Forking java -classpath
> /home/bridge/gsnet/WEB-INF/classes/com/gsnet/business/bo:/home
> /bridge/gsnet/WEB-INF/classes:/usr/lib/pgsql/jdbc7.0-1.2.jar:/
home/bridge/gsnet/WEB->
INF/lib/log4j.jar:/home/bridge/gsnet/WEB-INF/lib/tlabs13.jar
> com.gsnet.business.bo.TestIt
> -Dmtl.config=file:///home/bridge/gsnet/WEB-INF/edm.dev.properties
>
> Note that -Dmtl.config comes after "com.gsnet.business.bo.TestIt"....
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mike
>
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> Mike Bridge
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