Locating the path of a runtime dependency archive file

[Arundhathi Menon]

Hi,

I need to locate the path of the file - rampart.mar which I have placed in the folder <proj>/lib

To locate the path at runtime, I tried executing the command :

String repositoryLocation = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("rampart.mar").getPath();

It fails!

I realised that since my output folder in eclipse is set to build/classes , all the resource files that are placed under the src folder can be read in the above manner ,since post compilation they will be present in the folder build/classes.

How can I read the 'rampart.mar' file which is more of a runtime dependency jar?

Hope to hear from someone on this

Thank you!!

[Travis Hein]

From a given class,

   Class<?> cls = this.getClass();
    ProtectionDomain domain = cls.getProtectionDomain();
    CodeSource codeSource = domain.getCodeSource();
    URL sourceLocation = codeSource.getLocation();

where the sourceLocation URL will be a url of the form jar://path/file.jar (if this class is inside a jar file)
or file://path/file.class if the class is in the build folder.

So after getting this url to where the current class is, you could do some strip off the last part of it to obtain the parent folder, maybe remove the file:// prefix with,
and then we can use it to do a new File(parentFolder, relativePathToMarFile) and pass that into axis2