How do I programmatically determine operating system in Java?

Question

I would like to determine the operating system of the host that my Java program is running programmatically (for example: I would like to be able to load different propertie

Answer 1

If you're interested in how an open source project does stuff like this, you can check out the Terracotta class (Os.java) that handles this junk here:

• http://svn.terracotta.org/svn/tc/dso/trunk/code/base/common/src/com/tc/util/runtime/
• http://svn.terracotta.org/svn/tc/dso/tags/2.6.4/code/base/common/src/com/tc/util/runtime/

And you can see a similar class to handle JVM versions (Vm.java and VmVersion.java) here:

• http://svn.terracotta.org/svn/tc/dso/trunk/common/src/main/java/com/tc/util/runtime/