i was told the passing hierarchy is

System(OS)
passes to
JVM
passes to
Maven

Maven cannot populate properties up to parent JVM (so other JVM threads can use 
them)
JVM cannot populate properties to System-OS space (so other system processes 
can use them)

please confirm,
Martin 
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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:57:54 +0100
> Subject: Re: maven 2.1.0 not passing on system properties to java virtual     
> machine
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> 
> yes you are right.
> 
> It seems 2.4.3 of the plugin is broken but 2.4.2 works just fine.
> 
> will lock down the version is the pom.
> 
> thanks for your help
> 
> 2009/4/20 Stephen Connolly <[email protected]>:
> > Have you locked down the version of surefire you are using in your pom?
> >
> > if you have not locked it down, then you will be picking up a newer
> > version of surefire with 2.1.0.
> >
> > AFAIK, a newer version of surefire has issues passing system
> > properties to the forked process.
> >
> > in any case you should always lock down the versions of plugins that
> > you are using or else your build is not fully reproducible
> >
> > -Stephen
> >
> > 2009/4/20 edward eric pedersson <[email protected]>:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> We use the command line to pass on system properties to the java
> >> virtual machine when running our Hudson builds on a Linux box. It used
> >> to work quite well in 2.0.9 by since we upgraded to 2.1.0 it has
> >> stopped working altogether. The system properties just never make it
> >> to the java virtual machine.
> >>
> >> I have created a small test project and indeed it does not work at
> >> all. I have attached it in case you want to give it a go. [it got
> >> blocked so sending without attachment]
> >>
> >> This should work just fine with maven 2.0.9
> >>
> >> mvn2.0.9 -Dsystem.test.property=test test
> >>
> >> But this will fail
> >>
> >> mvn2.1 -Dsystem.test.property=test test
> >>
> >> The java code simply does this
> >>
> >> assertTrue( System.getProperty("system.test.property") != null);
> >>
> >>
> >> Any thoughts
> >>
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