Where are the class files?

[kaopelt]

How can I find out where the class files are installed in a
programmtic way?

Thanks,
Menlo

 

[Oliver Wong]

How can I find out where the class files are installed in a
programmtic way?

Classes might not come from files: they may be loaded from the
network, or dynamically generated.

- Oliver

 

[Tom Hawtin]

How can I find out where the class files are installed in a
programmtic way?

clazz.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation()

You might not get meaningful information from this.

Tom Hawtin

 

[Andrew Thompson]

How can I find out where the class files are installed in a
programmtic way?

Why (do you think you need to know)? What ability
are you attempting to bring to the end user, by identifying
where the class files reside?

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=]

How can I find out where the class files are installed in a
programmtic way?

Try something like:

private String getPath(Class cls) {
String cn = cls.getName();
String rn = cn.replace('.', '/') + ".class";
String path =
getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(rn).getPath();
int ix = path.indexOf("!");
if(ix >= 0) {
return path.substring(0, ix);
} else {
return path;
}
}

Arne