Re: app path

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:04:04 GMT
Message-ID:
<76ff89ba5c046@uwe>
Chameleon wrote:

O/H Andrew Thompson ????????????:

I want to know in which path is application.

...

What is the 'X'?


you right.
1. I want to open a "config.ini" file which is in JAR's path.
2. I want to open an "index.html" which is in JAR's path.


That *still* does not quite come up to a statememnt
of a 'user feature', but it is close enough.

OK - *why* are these files in the Jar's path?
Who, or what, caused them to be there?

For example, some apps. are supplied as Zip
archives, with the instructions to 'unzip to a new
directory on your system' - that might be one way
these files all happen to be in the same place.

But is does not *have* to be that way.
You might write a simple 'unzipper - installer'
that puts the config.ini and index.html into
a *known* path, that can be easily found later,
while putting everything else in a single (hidden
or otherwise) directory.

Web start also offers mechanims to 'install'
files or do other such things at first application
start.

With the code above I have it. But code is a little bit confusing.


..and 'fragile'. Every time devlopers seem to come
up with a 'rock solid' way to get the app. path, Sun
(seems to*) changes the rules. * They are really just
trying to design a robust and fast plug-in, but things
happen in that process that affect Java apps.

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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