sbt not setting javaOptions in a forked setting

Question

I'm trying to instrument my server with Kamon, which requires Aspectj weaver. I'm using sbt 0.13.8

However, the options aren't being passed to the forked process.

I've looked here:

https://github.com/eigengo/activator-akka-aspectj/blob/master/build.sbt

and here:

http://www.scala-sbt.org/0.13/docs/Forking.html

And this is my build.sbt:

import sbt.Keys._

name := """myApp"""

version := "0.0.1"

lazy val root = (project in file(".")).enablePlugins(PlayScala)

scalaVersion := "2.11.6"

libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  //jdbc, don not enable this when using slick
  cache,
  ws,
  specs2 % Test,
  "com.typesafe.akka" %% "akka-contrib" % "2.4.+",
  "org.scalatest" % "scalatest_2.11" % "2.2.4" % "test",
  "org.scalatestplus" %% "play" % "1.4.0-M3" % "test",
  "com.github.seratch" %% "awscala" % "0.5.+",
  "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-slick" % "1.1.1",
  "com.typesafe.play" %% "play-slick-evolutions" % "1.1.1",
  "mysql" % "mysql-connector-java" % "5.1.+",
  "commons-net" % "commons-net" % "3.3",
  "net.sourceforge.htmlcleaner" % "htmlcleaner" % "2.15",
  "io.strongtyped" %% "active-slick" % "0.3.3",
  "org.aspectj" % "aspectjweaver" % "1.8.8",
  "org.aspectj" % "aspectjrt" % "1.8.8",
  "io.kamon" %% "kamon-core" % "0.5.+",
//  "io.kamon" %% "kkamon-system-metrics" % "0.5.+",
  "io.kamon" %% "kamon-scala" % "0.5.+",
//  "io.kamon" %% "kamon-akka" % "0.5.+",
  "io.kamon" %% "kamon-datadog" % "0.5.+"
)

resolvers ++= Seq(
  "scalaz-bintray" at "http://dl.bintray.com/scalaz/releases"
)

// Play provides two styles of routers, one expects its actions to be injected, the
// other, legacy style, accesses its actions statically.
routesGenerator := InjectedRoutesGenerator

javaOptions in run += "-javaagent:" + System.getProperty("user.home") + "/.ivy2/cache/org.aspectj/aspectjweaver/jars/aspectjweaver-1.8.8.jar -Xmx:2G"
fork in run := true
connectInput in run := true

I've tried running the app using ./activator start as well as ./activator stage and then running the script.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The production application should be configurable during deployment. This is my example of start script:

PARAMETERS="-Dconfig.file=conf/production.conf -Dlogger.file=conf/prod-logger.xml"
PARAMETERS="$PARAMETERS -Dhttp.port=9000"
PARAMETERS="$PARAMETERS -J-Xmx8g -J-Xms8g -J-server -J-verbose:gc -J-Xloggc:../logs/portal/gc.log -J-XX:+PrintGCDateStamps"

nohup bin/myApp $PARAMETERS  &

For more details see Production Configuration