Re: [configuration][all] Support for OS environment variables

[Oliver Heger]

Wade Chandler wrote:
Sure, but not from a configuration perspective. For
instance, if daemon used configuration for a
configuration file it could be easier to use. Provide
multiple configuration files with your distribution
which allows users to more easily install and
uninstall services and operate on them without
remembering command line switches etc. launcher could
even use configuration (which is smaller than ANT) yet
also allow ANT and not have as many runtime
requirements. Then of course other applications can
just use a single configuration entry point and use
configuration information and reference environment
variables without having to hard code them into their
sources...makes it configurable.


Wade

--- Mark Fortner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Isn't this already handled by System.getenv?

System.getenv() has long been deprecated and is now available again 
since 1.5. [configuration] still has 1.3 as minimum required JDK; I 
don't know when we switch to 1.5 (there will probably be another version 
that requires 1.4).

My problem with this issue is that it will probably take a high effort 
to implement it correctly for earlier JDKs, while we get it for free in 
1.5. This seem counter-productive.

Oliver


On 7/23/07, Wade Chandler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Personally, I think this type thing comes in very
handy in different situations. It would even be
handy
in daemon and launcher. Look how many times
scripts
have to be written for every OS to get different
things like JAVA_HOME and ANT_HOME or similar into
an
application. It has been deprecated for a long
time,
but I doubt it will ever be removed. It seems to
be
quite needed in situations.

Wade

--- Oliver Heger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi all,

for [configuration] we have a feature request
for
supporting environment
variables [1]. I searched the archives and found
that this topic has
been discussed before [2].

I was wondering whether situation has changed
since
then. My personal
opinion is expressed in the Jira ticket in [1].
What
do others think?

Please note that the ticket contains an
attachment
with a simple
implementation for accessing environment
variables.
Thanks
Oliver

[1]

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONFIGURATION-284
[2]

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.jakarta.commons.devel/33239/focus=33325



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