How to set the path so it works for all users!

[Mouza Ali]

Hi,

I'm developing a client in java under Kubuntu KDE4 OS. I would like to make it portable by running under any home environment. I mean, when the client creates files and documents under for example home//mouza//Documents, I would like it to be able to create those files under any home name like home//...//Documents. So I dont need to change in the java syntax each time I run it under a new machine!

How should I write the path in java? I wrote something like:
~//Documents , but it didn't work!

Any suggestions?

[Jesper de Jong]

Java has a system property named user.home, which gets the name of the home directory. The nice thing about it is that it's cross-platform - if you use this, it will also work on Windows.

public class ShowHomeDir
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String homedir = System.getProperty("user.home");
        System.out.println("Your home directory is: " + homedir);
    }
}

[ December 12, 2008: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]

[Mouza Ali]

Thanks a lot Jesper, you really helped me