<AWT Dev> [9] Review Request: 8076264 [macosx] Launching app on MacOSX requires enclosing class

[Kumar Srinivasan]

On 4/10/2015 11:57 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Kumar Srinivasan 
> <kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com <mailto:kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com>> 
> wrote:
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>>     I don't get it.  Either providing this information (what "java
>>     program" is running - main class and/or command line) is
>>     generally useful or it is not.  There's nothing macosx-specific
>>     about it.  Either provide a clean blessed api (i.e. not an
>>     environment variable) and have
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>     Are you equating environment variable to system property ?
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> The environment variable is particularly bad because it is just a 
> private communication mechanism, but one that is even visible to 
> subprocesses.  A proper documented supported public cross-platform API 
> would be fine, and that would include a system property.
>
> I now see my jdk9 has a system property
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> sun.java.command=<name>
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> Why can't AWT use that?

It relates to the comment I have below, look at:
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/84c5527f742b/src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c#l1412

Kumar

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> (We could improve it by making it "official", i.e. move it to the 
> java.* namespace.)