Can you tell on runtime if you're running java from within a jar?

Question

I have an application that some of my users run from Eclipse, and others run it by using a jar file.

I want some actions to be done when running from within the jar,

Answer 1

From How-To

package com.rgagnon;

public class HelloClass {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
    new HelloClass().say();
 }

 public void say() {
   String className = this.getClass().getName().replace('.', '/');
   String classJar =  
     this.getClass().getResource("/" + className + ".class").toString();
   if (classJar.startsWith("jar:")) {
     System.out.println("*** running from jar!");
   }
   System.out.println(classJar);
 }
}

Will give:

>jar cvfm Hello.jar manifest.mft com\rgagnon\HelloClass.class
added manifest
adding: com/rgagnon/HelloClass.class (in=1059) (out=601) (deflated 43%)

>java com.rgagnon.HelloClass
file:/C:/DEV/WORK/JAVA/com/rgagnon/HelloClass.class

>java -jar Hello.jar
*** running from jar!
jar:file:/C:/DEV/WORK/JAVA/Hello.jar!/com/rgagnon/HelloClass.class

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As pointed out by Hosam Aly, this does not answer exactly the question.
I leave it there for general reference, as a wiki answer.

Answer 2

If you query the JAR file name it will work if running from a JAR file otherwise it will return something like classes so the following code can be used:

import java.io.File;

public class JarUtilities
{
    public static String getJarName()
    {
        return new File(JarUtilities.class.getProtectionDomain()
                                .getCodeSource()
                                .getLocation()
                                .getPath())
                       .getName();
    }

    public static boolean runningFromJar()
    {
        return getJarName().contains(".jar");
    }
}

EDIT:

If you need more accuracy and to be resistant against renaming of the file extension, checking whether the file contains the MANIFEST.MF should work:

public static boolean runningFromJAR()
{
    try
    {
        String jarFilePath = new File(JarUtilities.class.getProtectionDomain()
                .getCodeSource()
                .getLocation()
                .getPath()).
                toString();
        jarFilePath = URLDecoder.decode(jarFilePath, "UTF-8");

        try (ZipFile zipFile = new ZipFile(jarFilePath))
        {
            ZipEntry zipEntry = zipFile.getEntry("META-INF/MANIFEST.MF");

            return zipEntry != null;
        }
    } catch (Exception exception)
    {
        return false;
    }
}