Question

Suppose i have a configuration file like the following to start my application. How can i know from inside the application, value of, say, -Dlog4j.configuration

jvmArg=-server
jvmArg=-Xms512m
jvmArg=-Xmx1024m
jvmArg=-Dcatalina.base=tomcat
jvmArg=-Dcatalina.home={tomcat_HOME}
jvmArg=-Dcatalina.config=file:cfg/catalina.properties
jvmArg=-Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager
jvmArg=-Djava.util.logging.config.file=cfg/logging.properties
javaMain=org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
javaMainArg=-config ../cfg/server.xml
javaMainArg=start
jvmArg=-Dlog.directory=log
jvmArg=-Dlog4j.configuration=file:/cfg/test/log4j.properties

Answer 1

Use System.getProperty() to get a map of all the variables. This only work for properties that start with -D.

To get all JVM arguments you can do

RuntimeMXBean runtimemxBean = ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean();
List<String> arguments = runtimemxBean.getInputArguments();