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I hitherto used the following code to set the Application Name (in the top "System" menu bar) on my Apple MacBook. (Actually, I think I copied this from stackoverflow.) Basically, have a seperate AppLauncher class that uses System.setProperty() to set the application name before creating a new Runnable for the app itself. Worked just fine. However, since I downloaded and started using JDK 1.7, the solution stopped working - I'm getting the Class Name instead of the App Name in the menu, just like before I found that solution. I tried googling it, but to no avail. Here is the defunct code that used to work under JDK 1.6, reduced to the relevant parts: public class AppLauncher { public static void main(String[] args) { System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true"); System.setProperty("com.apple.mrj.application.apple.menu.about.name", "My Application"); UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { new MainWindow(); } }); } } Thanks for suggestions! ETA: invoking with java -Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true still works. Pu8tting the property into Info.plist might work, but I haven't tried it yet.

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