build problems and relative paths

[thomas jacob]

I am creating a executable jar for my application. I am facing some problems
1) My Application contains a properties file MyProperty.properties which contains a key value pair which reference a location of the file
say
CONFIG_FILE=C:/Program Files/eclipse/workspace/First/XML/Test.xml
This MyProperty file and the Test.xml are also included in my jar file.

So this renders my hardcoded location useless, because when a person downloads my jar and runs the executable the path C:/Program Files/eclipse/workspace/First/Test.xml cannot be found.

How do I overcome this problem?. How I can use a relative file path, which will change with the location of the jar

say I download the jar to C:/sample directory how will the location of the property CONFIG_FILE in MyProperty file reflect to C:/Sample/XML/Test.xml

Regards
Thomas

[Garrett Rowe]

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