Github user danielsoro commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/tomee/pull/176 btw, it is what we already doing on tomee.sh: `"$_RUNJAVA" $DEBUG $LOGGING_MANAGER -Dopenejb.base="$CATALINA_BASE" -cp "$CLASSPATH" org.apache.openejb.cli.Bootstrap "$@"` https://github.com/apache/tomee/blob/master/tomee/apache-tomee/src/main/resources/tomee.sh#L133
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