I would stick to -D options. "env" variables are going away in Maven soon.
Eric On 7/30/07, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > David Williams wrote: > > > How do you pass system environment variables like system date or system > time > > to maven. I'm running maven on a windows machine. > > You can access environment variables by using maven variables of the > form ${env.VARIABLE}. > > So ${env.PATH} would be your path, for example. > > As far as I am aware, will only work on JDK v1.5 and above, as it wasn't > possible to read environment variables in Java before then. > > Regards, > Graham > -- > > -- Eric Redmond http://blog.propellors.net