I’m doing some final tuning work on the Puppet recipes for our Glassfish installation, and Java has reared one of its ugly heads again. In this case, it’s the whole management of the command line arguments for the JVM.
The majority of the arguments we need to configure take the form
-D$variable=$value -XX:$variable=$value
The problem is, Java also has arguments that look like
-X$variable$value
This means my nice simple recipe to deal with tweaking the Glassfish JVM options doesn’t actually handle all the cases, so I now need to either go write a more complex one (and imbue it with knowledge as to what variables don’t have equal signs), or write a second recipe with a different name to handle these special snowflake options.
Feh.