Name: rmT116609 Date: 04/22/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
On Windows, the JRE does clever things with the command-line arguments passed
to the Java application. For example,

      java some.class *.java

will do wildcard expansion on "*.java", and call the Java app's 'main' method
with a list of file names.

The problem is that this is not documented ... at least not in the obvious place.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
A description of how the 'java' command on Windows preprocesses the command
line arguments before they are passed to the Java app's main method.

The following should be covered:

  1) the wildcard characters supported, and what they mean
  2) any restrictions on wildcarding
  3) how quotes are handled; e.g. handling mismatched quotes, quote stripping,
       inhibition of wildcarding within quotes.
  4) any other mechanisms that modifiy the "java" command's handling of args
       in the Windows context.

URL OF FAULTY DOCUMENTATION :
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/tooldocs/windows/java.html
(Incident Review ID: 233540)
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