@Mark: guess you are thinking to server.xml? then it would have placeholder support so still a system property somehow no?
+1 anyway, sounds very useful! Romain Manni-Bucau @rmannibucau <https://twitter.com/rmannibucau> | Blog <https://blog-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com> | Old Blog <http://rmannibucau.wordpress.com> | Github <https://github.com/rmannibucau> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rmannibucau> | JavaEE Factory <https://javaeefactory-rmannibucau.rhcloud.com> 2017-06-09 18:32 GMT+02:00 Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>: > On 09/06/2017 16:31, Coty Sutherland wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I was just doing some testing and got had an idea for spinning up new > > instances of tomcat. JBoss has this system property > > "-Djboss.socket.binding.port-offset" that I think would be useful for > > tomcat. As en example, setting the property to 100 on startup would > > add "100" to all port bindings on the server (e.g. with a vanilla > > install it would cause tomcat to run on 8105, 8180, and 8109). This > > prevents uses from having to use a fancy sed (or whatever Windows has) > > to update the port bindings for every new install. Does anyone else > > see any value to adding this feature? > > I like the idea a lot - apart from the system property part. Would this > still be as useful if it wasn't a system property? > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >