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From: Russell Freeman <RFreeman@globalrecall.com>
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Subject: RE: Access environment variables
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Stefan, if Java cannot access the environment directly, would it not be
possible to create a JNI interface that calls the underlying C call, e.g.
getenv() ?

(Sorry if this falls off topic)

Russ
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From: Peter Breitling [mailto:breitlip@informatik.tu-muenchen.de]
Sent: 17 October 2000 16:38
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Subject: Re: Access environment variables




Hum, i feared that. But then i need a wrapper script and this is not
elegant. Is there a reason for this design?



Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "PB" == Peter Breitling <breitlip@informatik.tu-muenchen.de> writes:
> 
>  PB> I want to access %J2EE_HOME% environment in a portable way.
> 
> Unfortunately there is no portable way to access environment variables
> in Java, sorry. You'll need to invoke Ant from a wrapper script with
> something like
> 
> ant -DJ2EE_HOME=%J2EE_HOME%
> 
> or
> 
> ant -DJ2EE_HOME=${J2EE_HOME}
> 
> Stefan

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