Question

I can launch my app as standalone app (for example from command line) or one specific way — it is directly “from” source code, i.e. using IntelliJ.

Is there a way to detect if app was launched from IntelliJ or not? Only this, binary decision.

Workarounds are plenty, adding extra option when launching, however I am looking for direct solution, like this for C#
How to know that the application is launched by debugger (VisualStudio) C#

The solution can be valid for any IDE, but must be valid at least for IntelliJ.

Little update

For those (including me) seeking ready to use code (Scala code):

object ProgramInfo
{
  val isStandaloneApp = sun.management.ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getInputArguments.isEmpty
  val isDebugMode = scala.collection.JavaConversions.iterableAsScalaIterable(sun.management.ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getInputArguments).exists(it => it.startsWith("-agentlib"))
}

It won’t work in complex cases, but if you don’t pass ton of parameters to JVM, it’s just fine.

Answer 1

I have used the below in the past to check the debug settings. You could use something similar

ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getInputArguments()