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setting system envarioment variables in java

 
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guys,
How do I set Enviroment variables(JAVA_HOME,MYSQL_HOME...) and different addresses in the system Path using java code?
Thanks

Yossi
 
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What are you trying to do?

A process can only change the copies of the environment variables of itself and set the environment of child processes it might spawn, so setting them is fairly useless.
[ February 19, 2006: Message edited by: Joni Salonen ]
 
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hey,
All I'm trying to do is to set through the code different settings for JAVA_HOME and PATH.
I have an installation kit and each compter has different settings.
Now I use a setEnv.cmd file:
System\Service\setx JAVA_HOME c:\j2sdk1.4.2_02 -m
set JAVA_HOME=c:\j2sdk1.4.2_02
System\Service\setx MYSQL_HOME c:\mysql -m
set MYSQL_HOME=c:\mysql
System\Service\setx path "c:\j2sdk1.4.2_02\bin;c:\Eldat Common Path;c:\perl\bin;%path%" -m
set path=c:\j2sdk1.4.2_02\bin;c:\Eldat Common Path;c:\perl\bin;%path%;


The problem here is the static addresses, If I set it in the code it can be dynamic.

Can I do it?

thanks
Yossi
 
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I don't really undestand the problem --- why don't you just make the part with for example "c:\j2sdk1.4.2_02" configurable instead of hardcoding it?
 
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