[JBoss AS7]: where to set environment properties

Question

I need to set the jvm system property file.encoding to utf-8, in my JBoss7 environment.

Where do I have to make this change? standalone.xml?

Answer 1

You can also set it from the JVM options

-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dfile.io.encoding=UTF-8 -DjavaEncoding=UTF-8 

Answer 2

There is a section in all the instance config files, standalone.xml as well, named system-properties.

You can define your properties like this:

<system-properties>
    <property name="file.encoding" value="utf-8"/>
</system-properties>

Should the section be missing, just add it immediately after the <extensions> section.