surf.xml endpoint from System Properties

[LeTom]

Hi,

Ive seen lots of posts about reading system variables to beans but not inside the surf.xml file.
Im using Jboss and set some general system variables. In my classes i can read them out with System.getProperty("endpoint") and the result is correct.

However i want this variable inside the surf.xml file. Otherwise i would need to configure the war for each instance instead of having the variable inside Jboss.

<config evaluator="string-compare" condition="Remote">
		<remote>
			<endpoint>
				<id>alfresco</id>
				<name>Alfresco - user access</name>
				<description>Access to Alfresco Repository WebScripts that require user authentication</description>
				<connector-id>alfresco</connector-id>
				<endpoint-url>${endpoint}</endpoint-url>
				<identity>user</identity>
			</endpoint>

		</remote>
	</config>

At this point i expect the system variable to be set but all get in the log is :

java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: ${endpoint}/api/login

what am i doing wrong ?

[davisk6]

I believe the surf.xml configuration file is not a "Spring" file, but a custom XML document parsed manually by the framework. Therefore, variable substitution is not available.