Re: How to handle properties file

[Michael Koch]

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 03:14:44PM +0200, Nicolas Geoffray wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> 
> I'm a student in a french university and finalizing a jvm
> implementation, using the gnu classpath. I'm having a few questions (i
> hope it's the right place to ask).
> 
> First question : how can i handle properties file stored in the
> glibj.zip. A simple example is the readConfiguration function in
> java/util/logging/LogManager class file. It first trys to get a
> "java.util.logging.config.file" property which should be a path in the
> filesystem. The thing is, it's in the glibj.zip file. There might be a
> hack somewhere in the FileInputStream to read from a zip file, but i'm
> not aware of it.

Use java.lang.Class.getResourceAsStream(String)

> Other question : shouldn't the function postInit from
> vm/reference/gnu/classpath/VMSystemProperties be native? It's my vm that
> reads the commande line that stands before the name of the class to
> execute.

The VM* classes are special to the VM, they may be native but does not has
to be. E.g. in JikesRVM and JNode nearly all stuff is implemented in Java
itself. So it depends on your VM.


Michael
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