Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > onsdag 04 februari 2009 00:20:03 skrev Johannes Schindelin: > > According to > > > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getenv(java.lang.String) > > > > getenv() is deprecated. However, in later editions (Java5 and later, to > > be precise), that deprecation seems to be lifted... > > It was worse, it wasn't even implemented. You got a runtime exception back then (1.3 or 1.4). > So now it's fine. FWIW, it worked in 1.3 and returned correct data on platforms that had a notion of "environment" (POSIX, Windows, not Mac OS 9). It was only 1.4 that threw a RuntimeException. That was a HUGE mistake on the Sun developer's part. IMHO, 1.4 should have always returned NULL instead of throwing RuntimeException. Most applications had ways to work around not getting a particular value from the environment, e.g. if the end-user didn't set something. But they weren't prepared to handle a new class of RuntimeException coming out of a method in System. -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
