Getting current machine name

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Karen Jones - 23 Nov 2005 11:22 GMT

How do I get the name of the current machine in Java? I thought it would be
a system property but I can't find it.

Thanks,

Karen J.

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hicks@bigmailbox.net - 23 Nov 2005 11:36 GMT

> How do I get the name of the current machine in Java? I thought it would be
> a system property but I can't find it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karen J.

There may be an easier way, but this worked for me:

InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
System.out.println("hostname = " + addr.getHostName());

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Joan - 24 Nov 2005 18:25 GMT

In 1.5 you can get env variables.
For windows xp you can look up COMPUTERNAME.

> How do I get the name of the current machine in Java? I
> thought it would be
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>
> Karen J.

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