CLONE - application.xml does not support property replacement

Make sure to set: <subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:ee:1.1"> <spec-descriptor-property-replacement> true </spec-descriptor-property-replacement> <jboss-descriptor-property-replacement> true </jboss-descriptor-property-replacement> </subsystem> Attached is a test case. Deploy and access the URL It will show 'web-test' ${sysProp:'app-test'} indicating that substitution ins application.xml was not done. See application.xml: <env-entry> <env-entry-name>test</env-entry-name> <env-entry-type>java.lang.String</env-entry-type> <env-entry-value>${sysProp:'app-test'}</env-entry-value> </env-entry> in web.xml <context-param> <param-name>webtest</param-name> <param-value>${sysProp:'web-test'}</param-value> </context-param> I did some digging: org/jboss/metadata/parser/util/MetaDataElementParser.java: 139 if (DescriptionGroupMetaDataParser.parse(reader, earMetaData.getDescriptionGroup())) { 140 return; 141 } 142 if (EnvironmentRefsGroupMetaDataParser.parse(reader, earMetaData.getEarEnvironmentRefsGroup())) { 143 return; 144 } are not calling the parse method with the "propertyReplacer"