How to pass the -D additional parameter while starting tomcat?

Question

I have a maven project, after running command mvn install all project as well as module compile and copied to local repository successfully. But now I want

Answer 1

You will want to set the CATALINA_OPTS system variable - this is read by Tomcat (and only by Tomcat) when starting. As @Betoverse says you can set this using the two methods:

export CATALINA_OPTS="-Dapp.username -Dapp.username"

Or in Windows:

set CATALINA_OPTS="-Dapp.username -Dapp.username"

You can add that command to your ~/.profile on UNIX to have it set automatically.