RFR: 8364182: Add jcmd VM.properties command [v7]

Sean Mullan mullan at openjdk.org
Thu Jan 15 16:30:56 UTC 2026


On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:31:21 GMT, Kieran Farrell <kfarrell at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The goal of this PR is to add a means of exposing security properties at runtime to aid the debugging security related issues/misconfigurations etc. Currently, only initial security properties set at start up can be exposed via the `InitialSecurityProperty` JFR event. 
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>> This patch introduces a new jcmd diagnostic command `VM.properties`, which enables developers to print either the current system properties or security properties of a running Java process via command-line arguments (-system or -security). To avoid clutter within the jcmd command list, the old `VM.system_properties` command is hidden, but not removed so will not break existing usages. The implementation of each is shared to reduce duplication.
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> Kieran Farrell has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   update to print java.security.Security properties

Please wait until someone from the Security Group reviews this.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29124#issuecomment-3755710214


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