determining runtime platform in runtime

[Pallab Sen]

Hi ,

How can we determine the platform at run-time .

Our requirement is something like below.

We want to do some processing of files, based on platforms like Windows or Linux.
In C, we have #ifdef , what's the equivalent for it in Java ?

Regards,
Pallab

[Pallab Sen]

I myself found the reply , courtsey google search.

The following line returned me the OS name.

String OSName = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();

-- Pallab

[Jesper de Jong]

Ok, but that is not the same as #ifdef in C, because that is a preprocessor directive, which is processed at compile time, not at runtime.