any way to find out the physical location of the class file at runtime?

[chris]

hi,

I wanna know there is a way to find out the physical location of the class file at runtime??

I tried "(new File(".")).getCanonicalPath()", but it returns only the "root" directory of where "javaw" is executed:
"/user/domains/mydomain" what I need is something like:
"/user/my_project/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/test/framework/testClass"!!

appreciate any help!

[Jean-Francois Briere]

I wonder why you want that kind of information.
The Java class may be a file located in a zip, jar, war, ear, folder or else or could even not be a file at all.
Anyway you could try something like this:

        URL clsURL = getClass().getResource("/" + getClass().getName().replace('.', '/') + ".class");
        
        if (clsURL.getProtocol().equals("jar")) {
            JarURLConnection jarConn = (JarURLConnection)clsURL.openConnection();
            System.out.println("Jar file location of the class is: " + new File(jarConn.getJarFileURL().getFile()).getAbsolutePath());
        }
        else if (clsURL.getProtocol().equals("file")) {
            System.out.println("Folder location of the class is: " + new File(clsURL.getFile()).getParentFile().getAbsolutePath());
        }

Regards