Extracting a file from the currently running JAR through code

Question

Are there any built-in methods I can use to allow users to extract a file from the currently running JAR and save it on their disk?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I am not sure whether you will get know from which jar your class is getting executed but you can try this to extract resources from jar : How to write a Java program which can extract a JAR file and store its data in specified directory (location)?