Using parameters like: -Dname=value w/ WL command-line (startWeblogic)

Question

Hello BEA/WL gurus and users, I have the dubious task of including information to be passed to a servlet deployed as a .war on my BEA/WL 92 instance. I would like to include a so-called minus D argument like the following when I start up my WL instance:
startWeblogic.(cmd|sh) -Dname=value
Then when the servlet is running I would like to extract the value from the name using some weblogic.jar gadgetry.
Does anything exists for doing the proposed above?
Please advise, David. (rants and raves are OK too).

Answer 1

Generally, the cleaner way to provide application parameters for web applications is to modify the web.xml to add parameters, or create a deployment plan to modify the web.xml (although I think the latter only works to modify existing parameters to different values). These strategies isolate the application changes to within the application itself, as opposed to changing the entire server environment.
That being said, if you use the NodeManager to start your servers, if you edit the server config in the admin console and go to the "Server Start" tab, you can edit the "Arguments" field to add your property setting. If the property value has spaces in it, you'll have to add quotes around the value.