Actually, that's a great idea. We've used the Preferences API in the past but didn't think about diving into the JDK source to extract the flush() methods we needed. From a quick look at the JDK source, it shouldn't be hard to make our own flush() that works on the Windows registry outside of the Preferences sandbox (Software\JavaSoft\Prefs).
Thanks for the idea! Eric Dominique Devienne wrote:
A little off-topic, but the Preferences API (JDK 1.4+) on Windows accesses
the Windows registry, and has a flush() method... But of course they use
native methods (in the VM I guess) to access it. Looks like one could hack
the use of the native methods already part of JDK 1.4 using reflection, but
that would be difficult and not advisable... --DD
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From: Eric Weidner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:06 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: Ant Featured in Out-of-the-Box
We are using jRegistryKey and we wrote wrappers around it to provide easy registry path manipulation. The problem with using Java to manipulate the registry is that we haven't found a way to flush the changes like you can with InstallShield, etc so they are available immediately. Thus the user has to go flush them manually by going into the env var dialog and hitting ok, or you have to request a reboot.
http://www.beq.ca/downloads/jreg/
Eric
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