Paul Reavis wrote:

> So I tried to access an environment variable for the first time today;
> no soap. Since System.getenv() is deprecated, I used
> System.getProperty(). I couldn't get it to fetch my variable with what I
> thought was the correct way:
>
> bash$ export foo=bar
> bash$ java myapp
>
> However I can get it with:
>
> bash$ java -Dfoo=bar myapp
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> --

nothing!

System properties != environment variables...

If you want to have access to an environment variable from with a
application, invoke java this way
(for example, the ABC variable)

java -DABC=$ABC classname...

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