OsUtilities

public final class OsUtilities

Utility class to perform various tasks related to details about the underlying operating system of a process.

Author

swrede, jwienke

Methods

deriveMachineType

public static MachineType deriveMachineType(String identifier)

Tries to guess a machine type from a name returned by getOsArchitecture().

Parameters

identifier – name of machine type, not null

Returns

guessed machine type, not null

deriveMachineTypeName

public static String deriveMachineTypeName(String identifier)

Tries to determine a normalized machine type from a name returned by getOsArchitecture().

Parameters

identifier – name of machine type, not null

Returns

guessed machine type, not null

deriveOsFamily

public static OsFamily deriveOsFamily(String identifier)

Tries to determine the operating system family from a concrete operating system name returned by getOsName().

Parameters

identifier – the concrete operating system name, not null

Returns

identified operating system family.

deriveOsFamilyName

public static String deriveOsFamilyName(String identifier)

Tries to determine a normalized operating system family from a concrete operating system name returned by getOsName().

Parameters

identifier – the concrete operating system name, not null

Returns

identified operating system family.

getLocalHostName

public static String getLocalHostName()

Returns a host name derived from name resolution for localhost.

Returns

host name or null if not detectable

getOsArchitecture

public static String getOsArchitecture()

Returns the architecture of the operating system a process is being operated on.

Returns

non-empty name string, not null

getOsName

public static String getOsName()

Returns the name of the operating system a process is currently being operated on.

Returns

a non-empty string