Environment Variable with Maven

Question

I\'ve ported a project from Eclipse to Maven and I need to set an environment variable to make my project work.

In Eclipse, I go to \"Run -> Run configurations\" and

Answer 1

The -D properties will not be reliable propagated from the surefire-pluging to your test (I do not know why it works with eclipse). When using maven on the command line use the argLine property to wrap your property. This will pass them to your test

mvn -DargLine="-DWSNSHELL_HOME=conf" test

Use System.getProperty to read the value in your code. Have a look to this post about the difference of System.getenv and Sytem.getProperty.