Here you can find the source of findExecutable(File baseLocation)
private static File findExecutable(File baseLocation)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2007, 2010 IBM Corporation and others. * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors:/* w w w . j av a 2 s .c o m*/ * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation *******************************************************************************/ import java.io.*; public class Main { private static File findExecutable(File baseLocation) { File plugins = new File(baseLocation, "features"); FilenameFilter filter = new FilenameFilter() { public boolean accept(File dir, String name) { return name.startsWith("org.eclipse.equinox.executable"); } }; String[] files = plugins.list(filter); if (files != null && files.length > 0) return baseLocation; return null; } }