Loading a file relative to the executing jar file

Question

The question says it all.

The specialty in my case is that the current working directory is not the location of the jar file but c:\\Windows\\system32 (

Answer 1

To get Launcher.class.getResourceAsStream("/../config.xml") to work, you need to add its path to the Class-Path entry of the JAR's MANIFEST.MF file. This is the normal practice.