Re: app path

From:

Real Gagnon <realgag+usenet@geocities.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:08:27 GMT

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Chameleon <cham_gss@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:faa27t$f5p$1@volcano1.grnet.gr:

I want to know in which path is application.
Until now I use the following super_dumb code:
application.jar : the jar file
subtitle/MainFrame.class : the main() class

try {
   // get application path
   rootPath =
URLDecoder.decode(ClassLoader.getSystemResource("subtitle/MainFrame.cla
ss").getPath().replaceAll("(application\\.jar!/)?subtitle/MainFrame\\.c
lass$|^(file\\:)?/", ""), "UTF-8");
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex) {
   rootPath = "";
}

Is there a better approach?
Thanks!

Try this :

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.net.URL;

public class FromWhere {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
    FromWhere s = new FromWhere();
    s.getHome();
  }

  public void getHome() throws IOException, URISyntaxException{
    URL u =
      getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation();
    File f = new File(u.toURI());
    System.out.println(f.getParent());
  }
}

Bye.
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