java中的path变量,如何在Windows上的Java应用程序中设置/更新PATH变量？

Something equivalent to this command line:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Something\bin

To run my application, some thing has to be in a PATH variable. So I want at the program beginning catch exceptions if program fails to start and display some wizard for user to select the installation folder of a program that needs to be in a PATH. The I would took that folder's absolute path and add it to the PATH variable and start my application again.

EDIT:

That "something" is VLC player. I need it's installation folder in PATH variable (for example: C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC). My application is single executable .jar file and in order to use it, VLC needs to be in a PATH. So when the user first starts my app, that little wizard would pop up to select the VLC folder and then I would update PATH with it.

解决方案

You can execute commands using the Process object, you can also read the output of that using a BufferedReader, here's a quick example that may help you out:

import java.io.BufferedReader;

import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Main {

public static void main(String args[]) {

try {

Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd set PATH=%PATH%;C:\\Something\\bin");

proc.waitFor();

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream()));

String line = reader.readLine();

while (line != null) {

//Handle what you want it to do here

line = reader.readLine();

}

}

catch (IOException e1) {

//Handle your exception here

}

catch(InterruptedException e2) {

//Handle your exception here

}

System.out.println("Path has been changed");

}

}