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An active profile list is obtained during the boot of the root container and is composed of the system property exo.profiles - a comma-separated list - and a server specific profile value (Tomcat for Tomcat, JBoss for JBoss, and more).
# runs GateIn on Tomcat with the profiles tomcat and foo sh gatein.sh -Dexo.profiles=foo # runs GateIn on JBoss with the profiles jboss, foo and bar sh run.sh -Dexo.profiles=foo,bar