Re: detecting which jvm version is being ran?

From:
"yawnmoth" <terra1024@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
28 Nov 2006 10:57:00 -0800
Message-ID:
<1164740220.765995.242610@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Mickey Segal wrote:

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1164065950.777383.149050@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

<http://www.physci.org/pc/jtest-applet.jnlp>


At www.segal.org/java/config/ we use the following code to get the maximal
information about the Java version:

    if ((System.getProperty("java.vendor").startsWith("Microsoft")))
        javaVersion = "java.version = " +
System.getProperty("java.version");
    else javaVersion = "java.vm.version = " +
System.getProperty("java.vm.version");

The applet is unsigned and it works without security messages in any
environment that I've checked.

I'm using a technique similar to this, now, and am being told by
someone that it crashes their browser.

Here's my code:

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class ShowInfo extends Applet
{
    String output = "", javaVendor, javaVersion;

    public void start() {
        try {
            javaVendor = System.getProperty("java.vendor");
            javaVersion = javaVendor.startsWith("Microsoft") ?
System.getProperty("java.version") :
System.getProperty("java.vm.version");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            //e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        g.drawString(javaVendor,10,25);
        g.drawString(javaVersion,10,50);
    }
}

I tried it, myself, on IE6 with MSJVM 1.1 and FF2 with Sun JVM 1.5 and
both worked. I don't know what browser their using nor do I know the
JVM vendor / version (that's what this script was supposed to find
out...)

Any ideas? Maybe I should be using something more like what Arne
Vajh=F8j posted?

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