How to get the path of a running JAR file?

Answer 1

This code worked for me to identify if the program is being executed inside a JAR file or IDE:

private static boolean isRunningOverJar() {
    try {
        String pathJar = Application.class.getResource(Application.class.getSimpleName() + ".class").getFile();

        if (pathJar.toLowerCase().contains(".jar")) {
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return false;
    }
}

If I need to get the Windows full path of JAR file I am using this method:

    private static String getPathJar() {
        try {
            final URI jarUriPath =
                    Application.class.getResource(Application.class.getSimpleName() + ".class").toURI();
            String jarStringPath = jarUriPath.toString().replace("jar:", "");
            String jarCleanPath  = Paths.get(new URI(jarStringPath)).toString();

            if (jarCleanPath.toLowerCase().contains(".jar")) {
                return jarCleanPath.substring(0, jarCleanPath.lastIndexOf(".jar") + 4);
            } else {
                return null;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.error("Error getting JAR path.", e);
            return null;
        }
    }

My complete code working with a Spring Boot application using CommandLineRunner implementation, to ensure that the application always be executed within of a console view (Double clicks by mistake in JAR file name), I am using the next code:

@SpringBootApplication
public class Application implements CommandLineRunner {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        Console console = System.console();

        if (console == null && !GraphicsEnvironment.isHeadless() && isRunningOverJar()) {
            Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[]{"cmd", "/c", "start", "cmd", "/k",
                    "java -jar \"" + getPathJar() + "\""});
        } else {
            SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void run(String... args) {
        /*
        Additional code here...
        */
    }

    private static boolean isRunningOverJar() {
        try {
            String pathJar = Application.class.getResource(Application.class.getSimpleName() + ".class").getFile();

            if (pathJar.toLowerCase().contains(".jar")) {
                return true;
            } else {
                return false;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            return false;
        }
    }

    private static String getPathJar() {
        try {
            final URI jarUriPath =
                    Application.class.getResource(Application.class.getSimpleName() + ".class").toURI();
            String jarStringPath = jarUriPath.toString().replace("jar:", "");
            String jarCleanPath  = Paths.get(new URI(jarStringPath)).toString();

            if (jarCleanPath.toLowerCase().contains(".jar")) {
                return jarCleanPath.substring(0, jarCleanPath.lastIndexOf(".jar") + 4);
            } else {
                return null;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Use ClassLoader.getResource() to find the URL for your current class.

For example:

package foo;

public class Test
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        ClassLoader loader = Test.class.getClassLoader();
        System.out.println(loader.getResource("foo/Test.class"));
    }
}

(This example taken from a similar question.)

To find the directory, you'd then need to take apart the URL manually. See the JarClassLoader tutorial for the format of a jar URL.

Answer 3

Try this:

String path = new File("").getAbsolutePath();

Answer 4

I had to mess around a lot before I finally found a working (and short) solution.
It is possible that the jarLocation comes with a prefix like file:\ or jar:file\, which can be removed by using String#substring().

URL jarLocationUrl = MyClass.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation();
String jarLocation = new File(jarLocationUrl.toString()).getParent();

Answer 5

return new File(MyClass.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation()
    .toURI()).getPath();

Replace "MyClass" with the name of your class.

Obviously, this will do odd things if your class was loaded from a non-file location.

Answer 6

Not really sure about the others but in my case it didn't work with a "Runnable jar" and i got it working by fixing codes together from phchen2 answer and another from this link :How to get the path of a running JAR file? The code:

               String path=new java.io.File(Server.class.getProtectionDomain()
                .getCodeSource()
                .getLocation()
                .getPath())
          .getAbsolutePath();
       path=path.substring(0, path.lastIndexOf("."));
       path=path+System.getProperty("java.class.path");