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If your main program is fully qualified as:

com.mycompany.projectx.Main and this exists in the following directory:

c:\somedir\com\mycompany\projectx\Main.class

you would have your classpath set to "c:\somedir"

If you had a text file that exists in
c:\somedir\com\mycompany\projectx\text.txt you could read it in by referring
to it as:
    this.class.getResourceAsStream("/com/mycompany/projectx/text.txt");

If you were in Main.class the class loader will use the classes package:
    this.class.getResourceAsStream("text.txt");

jim

Alan Shiers <jshiers@istar.ca> wrote in message
news:388105F5.EB860769@istar.ca...
> Hi:
>     I'm familiar with the File objects .path() and .getAbsolutePath()
> methods, but these methods don't allow me to obtain the applications
> path on the clients machine.  In Visual Basic we have a method called
> App.path.  When I use this method call as part of a string concatination
> App.path returns the path leading up to where the program sits on the
> clients computer.
> So, if myProgram is in C:\MSS\myProgram,  App.path will return
> "C:\MSS\".
> This is how I would like to use App.path in java:
> String st = App.path() + "text.txt";
>
> Result: st would equal "C:\MSS\text.txt"
>
> I need a method like this for Java! App.path is a very convenient
> method, one that I use a great deal.  I need to know, no matter where
> the client installs my java program, it will be able to find it's own
> application path within the directory structure it is in!  Does anyone
> have just such a method I can use, or is there already one in existance
> in the API that I'm not aware of?
>
> Regards,
>
> Alan Shiers
>