From: <glassfish_at_javadesktop.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:16:11 PST

I agree, this can be confusing. The only character inside a list of properties you need to escape is the ':' which itself is used to signal the property separation. So, you should do:
--property jdbc\:oracle\:thin ...

HTH,
Kedar
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