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How to get the running jar path?

 
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Hi all!

I am trying very hard to get the jar path of the currently running application. Simply because i have a resource folder that i would like to distribute along with the jar itself. (It couldn't work to put these resources directly *in* the jar, for it is a folder that must be listed and edited and modified by the user).

As i would like to distribute the jar, i would like to specify the path to this folder in a kind of robust manner, for example, try to say to the class: "look for where the jar is, the folder should be there".

But i couldn't find a proper way to do it. For example, if i specify

i get the path of something *inside* the jar....

Any idea how to do that nicely?

By the way, how do you manage with this kind of deployment issue?

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[ August 20, 2007: Message edited by: Jean-Yves Tinevez ]
 
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Hi -

Have you considered querying "user.dir" or "java.class.path"? For example:


Here are a few links that might help:
http://www.devx.com/tips/Tip/13804

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/findingclasses.html

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=22&thread=405160&tstart=0&trange=100

'Hope that helps .. PSM
 
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Originally posted by Paul Santa Maria:
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Have you considered querying "user.dir" or "java.class.path"? For example:



Yes, I have tried. "user.dir" only gives the directory from where the application was launched, not the one where it lives.
"java.class.path" gives me all kind of path...

Thank you anyway. I have looked deeply on the internet and couldn't find a concise answer....
 
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There is some explanation about this subject available on http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5153353&messageID=9577541
 
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