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From: Rick Hillegas <Richard.Hillegas@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: system properties in Derby unit tests
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Thanks, Kathey!

Kathey Marsden wrote:

>Rick Hillegas wrote:
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>>I would like to set a system property for a Derby unit test run  under
>>the RunTest framework. Would appreciate advice on how to do this. The
>>instructions in trunk/java/testing/README.htm say that I can crank up
>>RunTest with -DtestSpecialProps and that is useful for a hand-run
>>test. However, I don't know how to force a test to always have a
>>certain System property when run inside derbyall. The *_app.properties
>>files are nice too but they don't set system properties.
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>I don't really understand the difference between testSpecialProps and
>jvmflags but setting jvmflags in the <test>_app.properties file like
>lang/largeCodeGen does works ok as long as the test is not run with
>useprocess false.
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>Kathey
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