Blog Archive for jfalkner during February 2006

I like that Java can tell you what platform it is running on, but often I forget what strings to expect from the os.name and os.arch System properties. Google revealed a nice list. Why would you ever want to use this? It is handy in any case where you need to know if you are running on Mac OSX, Linux, Windows, or any other specific platform. For instance, if you want to save a config file in an...