How to get the path of a running JAR file?

Answer 1

Have tried several of the solutions up there but none yielded correct results for the (probably special) case that the runnable jar has been exported with "Packaging external libraries" in Eclipse. For some reason all solutions based on the ProtectionDomain do result in null in that case.

From combining some solutions above I managed to achieve the following working code:

String surroundingJar = null;

// gets the path to the jar file if it exists; or the "bin" directory if calling from Eclipse
String jarDir = new File(ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResource(".").getPath()).getAbsolutePath();

// gets the "bin" directory if calling from eclipse or the name of the .jar file alone (without its path)
String jarFileFromSys = System.getProperty("java.class.path").split(";")[0];

// If both are equal that means it is running from an IDE like Eclipse
if (jarFileFromSys.equals(jarDir))
{
    System.out.println("RUNNING FROM IDE!");
    // The path to the jar is the "bin" directory in that case because there is no actual .jar file.
    surroundingJar = jarDir;
}
else
{
    // Combining the path and the name of the .jar file to achieve the final result
    surroundingJar = jarDir + jarFileFromSys.substring(1);
}

System.out.println("JAR File: " + surroundingJar);