RE: Question on i5/OS

Ha!  Yes, but usually it's just to determine what JDBC driver to load or
whether we're in test vs. production environments.  The rest of the code
runs perfectly everywhere of course <bigger-G>

Kendall

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Crosby [mailto:jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 1:04 PM
To: 'Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400'
Subject: RE: Question on i5/OS

> Occasionally we determine in our Java code whether we are 
> running on an iSeries or on some other platform by looking at 
> the system property "os.name" like so:
> 
> if (System.getProperty("os.name").equals("OS/400")) {
>   do something;
> else {
>   do something else;
> }

I thought Java was write once, run anywhere.  You mean one needs to know
that platform one is running on and do things differently because of it?

I'm shocked!  <g>

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