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"Carole Masset" <carole.masset@plx.co.uk> writes:

> I have not found a way to read an environment variable from java using JDK
> 1.1.6. Can anybody help?

Doesn't work - apparently because there are platforms - let's call it
Macintosh - which does not use environment variables. Another reason
could be security.

> I am aware of System.getEnv but it is a deprecated API

... and actually has _never_ worked in a published version of
Java. Sun should simply have removed any references to it in the
released version instead of confusing people into believing it ever
worked.

> so I am currently trying using System.getProperty but I always get
> null.

You need to set the property first. E.g.:

java -Denv.HOME=%HOME% MyApplication

    String home = System.getProperty("env.HOME");