This is an initial list of system properties. The lines starting with "Found in" is just for convenience for writing this page, and should be removed when the page is finalized.
The following options can be set using GERONIMO_OPTS system variable so that the settings could take effect by the time of server startup.
On a Windows: set GERONIMO_OPTS=-D<OptionClass>=<value>
On non-Windows systems: export GERONIMO_OPTS=-D<OptionClass>=<value>
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.deployment.LenientMFCP
Value: true, false
Default: false
Description: Specify lenience vs. strict manifest classpath interpretation. Specify "true" for more lenient processing such as ignoring missing jars and references that are not spec compliant.
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-deployment\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\deployment\DeploymentContext.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.deployment.util.DeploymentUtil.jarUrlRewrite
Value: true, false
Default: false
Description: To prevent the lockout of archive during deployment, instead of returning a jar url, write the content to a temp file and return the url of that file.
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-deployment\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\deployment\util\DeploymentUtil.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.gbean.NoProxy
Value: true, false
Default: true
Description: Specify whether to use fast proxy to access GBean. If not, reflection is used.
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-kernel\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\gbean\runtime\AbstractGBeanReference.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.Marshaler
Default: OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.SerializedConfigurationMarshaler
Description: Specify the configuration marshaler class.
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-kernel\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\kernel\config\ConfigurationUtil.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.MPCLSearchOption
Value: safe, optimized
Default: safe
Description: Specify classLoaderSearchMode of the MultiParentClassLoader
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-kernel\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\kernel\config\MultiParentClassLoader.java
geronimo.bootstrap.logging.enabled
Value: true, false
Default: true
Description: TODO
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-kernel\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\kernel\log\GeronimoLogging.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.jacc.policy.provider
Default: Policy provider of the JRE
Description: Specify the classname of the JACC policy provider. Must be a subclass of java.security.Policy.
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-security\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\security\jacc\mappingprovider\GeronimoPolicy.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.config.file
Description: Specify the location of server config file
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-system\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\system\configuration\LocalAttributeManager.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.config.substitutions.file
Description: Specify the location of server config substitutions file
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-system\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\system\configuration\LocalAttributeManager.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.config.substitution.prefix
Default: org.apache.geronimo.config.substitution.
Description: Specify the prefix used to specify config substitutions. Users can specify a (key, value) to override the properties set in the config substitutions file. For example, an entry such as hostName=localhost can be overridden by setting OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.config.substitution.hostName=foo when the prefix is "OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.config.substitution.".
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-system\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\system\configuration\LocalAttributeManager.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.home.dir
Description: Specify geronimo installation directory
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-system\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\system\serverinfo\BasicServerInfo.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.server.dir
Description: Specify the base dir of a server instance
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-system\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\system\serverinfo\BasicServerInfo.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.server.name
Description: Specify the name of a server instance, used to construct the base dir as a sub-dir of the geronimo installation dir when OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.server.dir is not specified.
Found in framework\modules\geronimo-system\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\system\serverinfo\BasicServerInfo.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.repository.boot.path
Description: Specify the path of the server repository?
Found in plugins\jaxws\geronimo-jaxws-builder\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\jaxws\builder\JAXWSToolsCLI.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.wsgen.addToClassPath
Value: true, false
Default: true
Description: TODO
Found in plugins\jaxws\geronimo-jaxws-builder\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\jaxws\builder\WsdlGenerator.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.wsgen.fork
Value: true, false
Default: true on Windows, false on other OS
Description: TODO
Found in plugins\jaxws\geronimo-jaxws-builder\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\jaxws\builder\WsdlGenerator.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.wsgen.fork.timeout
Default: 1000 * 60 (microseconds)
Description: TODO
Found in plugins\jaxws\geronimo-jaxws-builder\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\jaxws\builder\WsdlGenerator.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.tomcat.GeronimoStandardContext.allowLinking
Value: true, false
Default: false
Description: TODO
Found in plugins\tomcat\geronimo-tomcat6\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\tomcat\GeronimoStandardContext.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.saaj.provider
Value: axis2, sun
Default: not set.
Description: Specify the SAAJ provider.
Found in plugins\webservices\geronimo-webservices\src\main\java\org\apache\geronimo\webservices\saaj\SAAJFactoryFinder.java
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.useSimpleFinder
Value: true, false
Default: not set
Description: Use org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.SimpleWARWebServiceFinder to locate WebServiceInfo objects,otherwise use org.apache.geronimo.jaxws.builder.AdvancedWARWebServiceFinder.
Found in plugins/jaxws/geronimo-jaxws-builder/src/main/java/org/apache/geronimo/jaxws/builder/WebServiceFinder
OptionClass:org.apache.geronimo.webservice.provider.wsdl.ignore
Value: true, false
Default: not set
Description: Ignore WSDL location that is specified for @WebServiceProvider service.
Found in plugins/axis/geronimo-axis2-builder/src/main/java.org/apache/geronimo/axis2/builder/Axis2Builder.java
Option:ariesApplicationResolver.returnOptionalResources
Value: true, false
Default: false
Description: Control whether optional bundles should be provisioned during EBA installation or not.
Found in plugins/aries/geronimo-aries/src/main/resources/OSGI-INF/blueprint/obr-resolver.xml