Passing Arguments To a Java Binary Ran With Bazel

When we create a java binary with bazel, we can run it using a command like this:

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bazel run :main

Sometimes an application requires very specific JVM flags to run correctly (For example: -Xmx:512m). These can be set like this:

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bazel run :main --jvmopt="-Xmx:512m" 

If we need to set more than one flag, we use this syntax:

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bazel run :main --jvmopt="-Xmx:512m" --jvmopt="-Xms:256m"