Cannot access cargo property in Glassfish container when type is "remote"

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I am following the instructions here to try to pass in a custom property to my glassfish 4 container. https://codehaus-cargo.github.io/cargo/Passing+system+properties.html I have it set up in my pom as:

<plugin>    
                    <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
                    <artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>1.5.0</version>
                    <configuration> 

                        <container>
                            <containerId>${glassfishId}</containerId>
                            <type>remote</type>
                            <systemProperties>
                                <foofy>barr</foofy>
                            </systemProperties>
                        </container>        
                        <configuration>
                            <type>runtime</type>
                            <properties>
                                <cargo.hostname>${target}</cargo.hostname>
                                <cargo.remote.name>wiley</cargo.remote.name>
                                <cargo.remote.username>${username}</cargo.remote.username>
                                <cargo.remote.password>${password}</cargo.remote.password>
                                <cargo.glassfish.admin.port>4848</cargo.glassfish.admin.port>
                            </properties>
                        </configuration>
                        <deployables>
                            <deployable>
                              <artifactId>wiley</artifactId>
                              <type>war</type>
                              <properties>
                                <context>/wiley</context>
                              </properties>
                            </deployable>
                        </deployables>              
                    </configuration>
                    <dependencies>
                        <dependency> 
                            <groupId>org.glassfish.deployment</groupId> 
                            <artifactId>deployment-client</artifactId> 
                            <version>3.2-b06</version> 
                        </dependency>
                    </dependencies>
                </plugin>

But when I try to access foofy in the java code using either System.getenv("foofy") or System.getProperty("foofy") both return null. I googled a lot, all working examples seem to be with Tomcat. Does this not work with Glassfish when type="remote"?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '16 at 12:28

Looked into the cargo source code, looks like system properties, and configuration files - both these features are not supported in remote mode. Ended up running an ant task prior to cargo plugin to modify my war to replace certain configuration files.

Cannot access cargo property in Glassfish container when type is "remote"

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