How to Read file from a shared location Windows? (Java)

Question

Is there a way to read a file from a network shared location on windows?

Let\'s say for instance I\'ve this simple code that reads a text file called rea

Answer 1

In your bat file %~dp0 expands to the location of the bat file. You need that in your classpath so that java can find the class, though I don't know if it will choke on UNC path. For example:

@echo off
echo %~dp0

would output

\\host\share\dir

EDIT: %dp0 will not work if there are spaces. This is what you need in your bat file:

@echo off
set p=%~dps0
echo %p%
java -classpath %p%\jarname classname
pause