What is the best way to find the users home directory in Java?

Question

The difficulty is that it should be cross platform. Windows 2000, XP, Vista, OSX, Linux, other unix variants. I am looking for a snippet of code that can accomplish this for

Answer 1

If you want something that works well on windows there is a package called WinFoldersJava which wraps the native call to get the 'special' directories on Windows. We use it frequently and it works well.