TestNG, Jenkins, Integrationtesting a RESTful API: how to specify the Base URL?

I'm developing a RESTful webservice in Java. For Integrationtesting I use a separate project, which uses the jersey client to access the webservice.

During development I deploy the artifacts on a local glassfish, so the Base URL for the Integrationtests is something like http://localhost:8080/MyWebApplication/myServlet/. I run the integration tests from within Netbeans against the local appserver.

I use jenkins to build, deploy and execute the integration tests on the test system. Once deployed on the test system, the Base URL is different, more like this: https://test.myproduct.com/myProductName/. Reverse proxies route the traffic to application servers.

Today the URL is a final static String in one of the integrationtest classes. How can us开发者_JAVA技巧e get Jenkins (or Netbeans, if that's easier) to provide the Base URL to an integration test?

If you are using maven, the natural solution is to use different profiles: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html has a discussion of exactly your problem. In Jenkins you can easily pick the correct profile.

If you are not using maven, the solution is still to not use a hard coded string value, but to pick up the value from an external property.