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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:08:41 +0000
From: Tim Ellison <t.p.ellison@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: about java -version issue for harmony java launcher
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Deven You wrote:
>  Harmony java launcher  "java -version" command can not work with IBM J9
> VM26 . The error result is as below:
> 
>  ../jres/see/bin/java -version
> Apache Harmony Launcher : (c) Copyright 1991, 2008 The Apache Software
> Foundation or its licensors, as applicable.
> JVMJ9VM007E Command-line option unrecognised: -version
> HMYEXEL062E Internal VM error: Failed to create Java VM
> FAILED to invoke JVM
> This issue occurs on both linux and windows x86 platform.
> 
>  I find our laucher just invoke the mothod JNI_CreateJavaVM()  of  vm which
> on j9 vm does not deal with -version option according to JNI Specification.
> the specification says:
> "All Java virtual machine implementations must recognize the following set
> of standard options:  ..."
> it lists:
>  -D<name><value>
>  -verbose
>  vfprintf
>  exit
>  abort
> 
> It then goes on to stay:
> "In addition, virtual machine implementations may support their own set of
> implementation-dependent option strings.  Implementation-dependent option
> strings must begin with "-X" or an underscore."
> Any other option is non-standard.
> 
> but for DRLVM, seems its JNI_CreateJavaVM() does not comply with JNI
> Specification and support -version option.the result is below:
> 
> Apache Harmony Launcher : (c) Copyright 1991, 2008 The Apache Software
> Foundation or its licensors, as applicable.
> java version "1.5.0"
> pre-alpha : not complete or compatible
> svn = r745401, (Feb 18 2009), Windows/ia32/msvc 1310, release build
> http://harmony.apache.org.
> but there is still no vm version info.
> 
> I suggest our java launcher should not pass -version or other non-standarad
> options  to vm interface JNI_CreateJavaVM(), instead we should make a
> general solution to deal with them, maybe call certain methods in jre tool
> package. so that  our java laucher can work well on different vms.

Sounds reasonable to me.

A basic implementation would create the VM then query the values in
java.vm.version etc and print those, a more sophisticated (and longer
running<g>) implementation would run a Java class and pull out the VM
version plus version information from our class library JARs too.

(We would need to define the SVN build info as a property too so it can
be picked up from Java)

Regards,
Tim