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Using a property file per workspace

In the preferences: Window -> Preferences -> Servoy -> Startup there is an option to give the servoy.properties file name. This must be a file relative to the application_server dir. This way you can configure a specific workspace to use a specific servoy properties file.

The system property that can be defined at the command line: property-file (-Dproperty-file) will override this again. (see below)

Using Commandline to Open Servoy

If using the command line to give system properties like  property-file or below the webserver-file be sure to read this: Eclipse ini configuration first.

Because to be able to give a parameter you need to specify the -vmargs on the command line, but that would mean by default it overrides the one in the servoy.ini (which is an eclipse.ini file). This means that you loose the memory settings and so on. It is better to also add the                    "--launcher.appendVmargs" to the servoy.ini file just before the -vmargs option, then you can use the -vmargs on the command line just fine and you don't loose the stuff configured in the ini file.

Two commands are useful in opening Servoy while at the same time specifying the workspace and Servoy properties file to use (XnameX is used here as a sample name of a workspace and a properties file):

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servoy.exe -data "d:\workspaces\XnameX" -vmargs -Dproperty-file=XnameX.properties

Using different server.xml files per workspace or eclipse install

With the system property: webserver-file (-Dwebserver-file=myserver.xml) you can override or choose another server.xml that the Tomcat installation that the developer starts will use. This way you can start it with different ports like one that binds ot 8080 and one that binds to 8081.

This filename should point to a file that is relative to the [servoyinstall]/application_server/server/conf dir (so besides the normal server.xml file)