eclipse-api

I'd like to write a plugin that does something with the currently edited file in Eclipse. But I'm not sure how to properly get the file's full path. This is what I do now: IFile file = (IFile) window.getActivePage().getActiveEditor.getEditorInput(). getAdapter(IFile.class); Now I have an IFile object, and I can retrieve it's path: file.getFullPath().toOSString(); However this still only gives me the path relative to the workspace. How can I get the absolute path from that? Looks like you want IResource.getRawLocation() . That returns an IPath , which also has a makeAbsolute() method if you