classpath ?

[Tay Thotheolh]

I am using NetBeans IDE to do my projects. In netbeans , I just do

File file = new File("system.properties");

and when I run in NetBeans, it can find the properties file. When I go to the distribution folder and execute it without netbeans, it doesn't know where the properties file is even though it's placed right next to the jar file.

My other projects doesn't have this problems with the above except this. Any suggestions ? Maybe I can do a getClass.getResource() method ?

[Tay Thotheolh]

I was using

 java -jar /home/<User>/Projects/Main_Project/Main_Project.jar 

to execute. I noticed that by doing a 'cd' on my system to

 cd /home...../.../Main_Project 

then do a 'java -jar ...jar' then it starts working. Why is it so that I have to specifically cd into the folder to execute the jar than it works ?