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

You can pass some of the arguments through the _JAVA_OPTIONS variable.

For example, define a variable for maven proxy flags like this:

_JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dhttp.proxyHost=$http_proxy_host -Dhttp.proxyPort=$http_proxy_port -Dhttps.proxyHost=$https_proxy_host -Dhttps.proxyPort=$http_proxy_port"

And then use mvn clean install (it will automatically pick up _JAVA_OPTIONS).