java -version output for JDK8

[Kumar Srinivasan]

On 7/25/2013 6:05 PM, Steven R. Loomis wrote:
> On 7/25/13 4:26 p.m., Omair Majid wrote:
>> Hi Kumar,
>>
>> On 07/25/2013 07:05 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
>>> Changing any of these lines is very painful, because too many
>>> scripts and tests have made assumptions on these lines, and some of
>>> these are System properties which are baked at build time.
>> I am looking at it from the users' point of view. Oracle (proprietary)
>> JDKs claim to be "java version..." as do IBM (proprietary) JDKs. Isn't
>> openjdk the odd one out if it claims to be "openjdk version..."?
>>
>> I also think it will be much more painful for all our users to have to
>> fix their scripts and tests if any of those scripts or tests happen to
>> rely on the output of "java -version". Fixing our tests and scripts
>> would surely be less painful.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Omair
> I note that "java -XshowSettings" prints out all sorts of info in a
> structured format.  Scripts might want to use this if possible.

you do it at your own risk.
fyi:

% java -X
.......
.....
     -XshowSettings:locale
                       show all locale related settings and continue

The -X options are non-standard and subject to change without notice.


Kumar

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> Steven
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