how to set jdk.attach.allowAttachSelf=true globally

Question

I am trying to move one of our systems from java 8 to java 9 and about one third of the unit tests that worked OK in java 8 fails with the error below:

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Answer 1

My tests were running using surefire plugin, If said vm argument added in argline, then test started working.

    org.apache.maven.plugins
     maven-surefire-plugin
     2.14.1
     
       -Djdk.attach.allowAttachSelf=true