Specifications

Sun Services
Java™ Programming Language Module 9, slide 6 of 37
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sun Services, Revision F
System Properties
• System properties are a feature that replaces the
concept of environment variables (which are
platform-specific).
• The System.getProperties method returns a
Properties object.
• The getProperty method returns a String
representing the value of the named property.
• Use the -D option to include a new property.