How to get the path of a running JAR file?

Answer 1

The getProtectionDomain approach might not work sometimes e.g. when you have to find the jar for some of the core java classes (e.g in my case StringBuilder class within IBM JDK), however following works seamlessly:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(findSource(MyClass.class));
    // OR
    System.out.println(findSource(String.class));
}

public static String findSource(Class clazz) {
    String resourceToSearch = '/' + clazz.getName().replace(".", "/") + ".class";
    java.net.URL location = clazz.getResource(resourceToSearch);
    String sourcePath = location.getPath();
    // Optional, Remove junk
    return sourcePath.replace("file:", "").replace("!" + resourceToSearch, "");
}