overriding the project.properties using the maven -D option

[Tim Brazil]

I'm trying to add a new property in the project.properties file in order 
to build in different levels of debug output for my junit tests. It's a 
very basic idea however I cannot seem to get the correct "modified" 
property using the System.getProperty() method. Am I missing something? 
The following explains my problem. - Thanks in advance for any pointers. 
- Tim

1) I added a new property to my project.properties file called 
smi.appliance.functest.debugLevel and set it to 0:

i.e.
smi.appliance.functest.debugLevel=0
2) I run my junit test using a -D properties modifier flag:
i.e.
smimav -Dsmi.appliance.functest.debugLevel=2 
-Dtestcase=com.sendmail.appliance.functest.syscfg.AccountNegFuncTest 
test:single

3) Now the output in my <testname>.xml file indicates that the value for 
smi.appliance.functest.debugLevel has been indeed modified to 2:

<property name="smi.appliance.functest.debugLevel" value="2"></property>
4) However my method within the test still thinks it the default 
"project.properties" value.

     String debugLevel = 
System.getProperty("smi.appliance.functest.debugLevel");
     System.out.print("DEBUG: 
"+debugLevel+"\n");                          <----- this will still 
print 0 and not the 2 "modified" value

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