<html>
  <head>
    <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type">
  </head>
  <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/10/2015 11:57 AM, Martin Buchholz
      wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote
cite="mid:CA+kOe08Kn_z-2uQpsoGH2vBPVKcB+sm5=0KSrh5LecHDDKaxqQ@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr"><br>
        <div class="gmail_extra"><br>
          <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:33 AM,
            Kumar Srinivasan <span dir="ltr"><<a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com"
                target="_blank">kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com</a>></span>
            wrote:
            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
              <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><span class="">
                  <blockquote type="cite">
                    <div dir="ltr">
                      <div>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 </div>
                    </div>
                  </blockquote>
                  <br>
                </span> Are you equating environment variable to system
                property ?</div>
            </blockquote>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>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.</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>I now see my jdk9 has a system property</div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>sun.java.command=<name><br>
            </div>
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>Why can't AWT use that?  <br>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    It relates to the comment I have below, look at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/84c5527f742b/src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c#l1412">http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/84c5527f742b/src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c#l1412</a><br>
    <br>
    Kumar<br>
    <br>
    <blockquote
cite="mid:CA+kOe08Kn_z-2uQpsoGH2vBPVKcB+sm5=0KSrh5LecHDDKaxqQ@mail.gmail.com"
      type="cite">
      <div dir="ltr">
        <div class="gmail_extra">
          <div class="gmail_quote">
            <div><br>
            </div>
            <div>(We could improve it by making it "official", i.e. move
              it to the java.* namespace.)</div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
  </body>
</html>