I'm developing a J2EE application that runs in JBoss on a Windows Vista machine, but the application will end up on a Linux machine. Is there a way to pass in the value of an environment variable in a platform independent way? I think (but I'm not sure) the platform-sensitive way would be: -Denv_var=%MY_ENV_VAR% (Windows) -Denv_var=$MY...
A program is compiled from some language to ASM --> Machine Code (directly executable). When people say that this is platform dependent, the mean that the binaries formed will run (correctly) only on the CPUs with same Instruction Set Architecture like x86, x86-64. It may (incorrectly) / may not (at all) run on other processes because of...
For example, one application that I'm working on stores PDF files into a database, then can pull them back out for display. I've got a call in there using Runtime.exec to do a "cmd /c start " plus the PDF filename. Works great for Windows. Would prefer to find a platform independent way (trying to avoid OS detection with alternate met...