recently i was in an interview in an MNC. There they have shown me this piece of line -Ddep-type=local in eclipse's vmargs section and asked what exactly this is used for.Though i am working on eclipse and java for couple of years, i have no idea on what this argument does.Please help me in understanding this.Thanks in advance.
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Its providing the argument to pick the dependency type, this might be local to their application, where they used this variable 'dep-type' to identify and glue what environment config they want to use – Soni Sep 14 '20 at 05:40
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`-D` means it is an environment variable definition. So it sets `dep-type` to `local`. This is not a standard Eclipse environment variable. – greg-449 Sep 14 '20 at 06:46
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@greg-449 `-D` sets a Java "system property", not an environment variable. They are separate sets of name value pairs. – nitind Sep 14 '20 at 12:56
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@greg-449 Yes they are setting dep-type to local.But what exactly is dep-type.And it is used for ? BTW thank you very much for your time. – Kranthi.Gogikar Sep 14 '20 at 16:18
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I don't know, as I said this is not a core Eclipse setting. – greg-449 Sep 14 '20 at 16:21