%USERPROFILE% equivalent

[PhiberOptik]

Hey,
I am writing a program and it requires me to place a file on the desktop. I know in cmd prompt you can use %USERPROFILE% to do it.

Is there java equivalent?

Thanks PO

[Ezzaral]

System.getProperty("user.home") will give you the users home directory.

[PhiberOptik]

Awesome thanks,

also would you be able to tell me how to determine what operating system they are using?

Thanks PO

[Ezzaral]

Take a look at the list of properties that are always available through System.getProperties(). OS is one of them.

You can also dump a list of all of them to sysout easily with the following code

System.getProperties().list(System.out);

[PhiberOptik]

Awesome thanks Ezzaral you rock!!