Paulo Levi skrev den 03-05-2008 16:46:
I always thought that System.getProperty("user.dir") was sufficient to
locate the directory of the "program", meaning that if i wanted to
write something to the directory where the jar file is i would just
need to get it.
Not so, that property gets the location where the java command was
invoked, and thus is completly useless for that that.
I'd like to propose two new properties: program.home and program.directory.
I can mangle it right now parsing the classpath like so
It gives you the current directory of the user.
You should not depend on external variables, as it is not used if you
use executable jars etc.
Try looking at
MyClass.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation() (not
compiled, just derived from javadoc) to get an URL you can work with.
