RE: getting the name of a jar

[pc0014@netscape.net (Shekhar Pendyala)]

If you have created a File object for the jar file, you can find/ test the name using getName() method.

Shekhar

"Jason R. Kretzer" <jason@OpinionOne.com> wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>I have a jar that needs to perform an operation on itself(like read a text file inside itself).  This is easy enough, however, here is the catch.  How can a jar determine what its own file name is?  This will need to be determined at runtime.
>
>eg.
>
>1.) foo.jar is created using the JDK jar tool.
>2.) John Q. User renames the jar to bar.jar.
>3.) When executed, bar.jar knows its name is "bar.jar" and sets up a connection to do its operation.
>
>
>Question:  How can I get bar.jar to know what its name is at runtime?
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Jason
>
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