Defining Environment Variables

PowerDesigner defines a certain number of environment variables for use used in generation commands and with GTL. You can edit these variables and add your own.

1. Select Tools > General Options, and click the Variables category in the left-hand pane.

   Variable	Description	Default
   CMD	Windows command interpreter	command.com or cmd.exe
   HOME	Variable defining the default home directory	—
   J2EEVERIF	Batch program for verifying if the deployment jar for an EJB is correct	verifier.bat
   JAR	Command for archiving java files	jar.exe
   JAVA	Command for running JAVA programs	java.exe
   JAVAC	Command for compiling JAVA source files	javac.exe
   JAVADOC	Command for defining JAVA doc comments	javadoc.exe

2. Click in the row of an existing variable in order to edit its value, or click the Add a Row tool to create a new variable and enter its value.
3. Click OK to close the dialog.
   Note: To use a variable in GTL (see Customizing and Extending PowerDesigner > Customizing Generation with GTL ), prefix it with a dollar sign, and wrap it in percent signs. For example, %$CMD%.