Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /** * Copyright (C) 2015 52North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source * Software GmbH * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published * by the Free Software Foundation. * * If the program is linked with libraries which are licensed under one of * the following licenses, the combination of the program with the linked * library is not considered a "derivative work" of the program: * * Apache License, version 2.0 * Apache Software License, version 1.0 * GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 * Mozilla Public License, versions 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0 * Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), version 1.0 * * Therefore the distribution of the program linked with libraries licensed * under the aforementioned licenses, is permitted by the copyright holders * if the distribution is compliant with both the GNU General Public * License version 2 and the aforementioned licenses. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General * Public License for more details. */ public class Main { /** * Method to get absolute path based on relative path from src folder. * * @param resource - relative path * @return absolute path */ public static String getPath(String resource) { String path = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(resource).getPath(); //relative path based on src folder, example resource= gpt/search/browse/browse-catalog.xml return checkPath(path); } /** * Method to correct a path. Splits last slash. * * @param path * @return corrected path */ private static String checkPath(String path) { if (path.startsWith("/")) { path = path.substring(1, path.length()); } return path; } }