Hi, you need to define PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer in your xml file, in order to use system properties. Something like
<bean class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"/> will do the trick. Cheers -- Dejan Bosanac Open Source Integration - http://fusesource.com/ ActiveMQ in Action - http://www.manning.com/snyder/ Blog - http://www.nighttale.net On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Stephen Pietrowicz <s...@ncsa.uiuc.edu>wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to change the location of -Dactivemq.base. In the activemq > script, you can do this by setting the environment variable ACTIVEMQ_BASE > to > something besides the default, which is $ACTIVEMQ_HOME. > > I set ACTIVEMQ_BASE=/tmp, and ran activemq with a simplified version of the > conf/activemq.xml file. I verified (by looking at "ps") that > -Dactivemq.base=/tmp when activemq executes. I set it to /tmp so the > files > for /tmp/data will go there. (Just for this test). > > When I do this, it appears that not only does it not put data into /tmp as > requested, but it creates an actual directory called "${activemq.base}" in > the current working directory. It puts the "data" directory below that, > along with all the usual subdirectories below "data". > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, or is this a bug? Here is the simple.xml > file I'm using: > > <beans > xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"; > xmlns:amq="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans > http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd > http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core > http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core/activemq-core.xsd > http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring > http://activemq.apache.org/camel/schema/spring/camel-spring.xsd";> > > <broker xmlns="http://activemq.apache.org/schema/core"; > brokerName="localhost" dataDirectory="${activemq.base}/data"> > > <!-- Destination specific policies using destination names or > wildcards --> > <destinationPolicy> > <policyMap> > <policyEntries> > <policyEntry queue=">" memoryLimit="5mb"/> > <policyEntry topic=">" memoryLimit="5mb"> > </policyEntry> > </policyEntries> > </policyMap> > </destinationPolicy> > > <persistenceAdapter> > <amqPersistenceAdapter syncOnWrite="false" > directory="${activemq.base}/data" maxFileLength="20 mb"/> > </persistenceAdapter> > > <!-- The maximum about of space the broker will use before slowing > down producers --> > <systemUsage> > <systemUsage> > <memoryUsage> > <!-- SRP - up memory usages from 20 mb to 512 mb--> > <memoryUsage limit="512 mb"/> > </memoryUsage> > <storeUsage> > <storeUsage limit="1 gb" name="foo"/> > </storeUsage> > <tempUsage> > <tempUsage limit="100 mb"/> > </tempUsage> > </systemUsage> > </systemUsage> > > > <!-- The transport connectors ActiveMQ will listen to --> > <transportConnectors> > <transportConnector name="openwire" uri="tcp://localhost:61616" > /> > </transportConnectors> > > </broker> > > </beans> > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Strange--Dactivemq.base-behavior-tp22608067p22608067.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
