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Read file outside the JAR

Hi All, I’m back from loooong vacation. Actually haven’t done anything great to blog about, only update is, I switched the company… Here is recent Java trick I found and I think I should share it.. Problem: I’m wondering about how can I read the file which is in the same directory of my executable JAR ? [Edited: Read the comment to get easy and obvious answer :)] Solution: Its simple, just get the current directory and append the file you want to access whose path is relevant to the JAR. Like /mydir/Myjar.jar /mydir/my.properties In order to read the “my.properties”, I just used the following code. FileReader reader = new FileReader(new File(new File(“.”), “my.properties”)); Simple.