Here you can find the source of convertUrlToFile(URL url)
public static File convertUrlToFile(URL url)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w w w. ja va2 s . com * IzPack - Copyright 2001-2008 Julien Ponge, All Rights Reserved. * * http://izpack.org/ * http://izpack.codehaus.org/ * * Copyright 2005 Marc Eppelmann * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ import java.io.*; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLDecoder; public class Main { public static File convertUrlToFile(URL url) { return new File(convertUrlToFilePath(url)); } public static String convertUrlToFilePath(URL url) { try { return URLDecoder.decode(url.getFile(), "UTF-8"); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { // yet another stupid checked exception... throw new RuntimeException(e); } } }