[Wrapper-user] Using getenv?

[<Jas...@sc...>]

Hi,

First off, kudos for such a useful library!

I have a service which handles requests (jobs) from other machines - a 
distributed build process.

My problem is that it needs to know what "tools" (compilers, SDKs) are 
installed locally, which requires the service to check for the existence 
(say) of %SDK_HOME%/sdk.h or %APP%/bin/app.exe

System.getenv() is causing a java.lang.Error in the service, but not as an 
application. Checking the docs it seems to imply that getenv is 
deprecated, but this does not appear to be true going by the javadoc:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#getenv(java.lang.String)

These variables may not be known at run-time and are subject to change and 
so I would rather not have them hardwired into each client via 
properties...

Any thoughts?


Jason Chown
Head Programmer
SCEE Studio Liverpool


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