WebStart Resources on Filesystem

[richip]

We're currently using Sun's J2SE 1.5 package. Could someone give suggestions on how to determine the full pathname on the client system that a webstart applications resources (specifically JAR files) reside?. In Java 1.4 this was possible with Class.getResource(String).getPath() (which would return a URL of the type "file:") but this no longer seems to be the case in 1.5.

All ideas and suggestions would be appreciated

[dlorde]

We've migrated a Java 1.4 Web Start application to 1.5 without any problems, but I don't recall needing to know where the jars are put by Web Start... the class loader finds resources in the jars, and we put data for local storage into the user home or working directories.

What do you get back from the Class.getResource(String).getPath() call?

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[richip]

What do you get back from the Class.getResource(String).getPath() call?

It used to return a "file:" type URL that would be pointer to the class/method on the local filesystem, but since the move to 1.5, it now shows an "http:" type URL reference that points back to the origin server. I'm hoping this is just a config change. Something that needs to be added.

[richip]

Pointer to the JAR / class, I meant.

[dlorde]

OK... so what is it you are trying to achieve (why do you need to know the absolute path) ?

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[richip]

Have to spawn a new JVM that needs those webstart classes in its classpath

[dlorde]

OIC... on my system, the jars in the web start cache are all renamed by the JWS cache manager, so you'd have to know the JWS jar naming convention...

I don't have an answer to your requirement - as I understand it, you can only access local files via the ServiceManager (see JWS Runtime Client Services), so maybe you can find something there you can use.

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