Here you can find the source of getFile(URL url)
public static File getFile(URL url)
//package com.java2s; /*/* w w w . j ava2s . c om*/ * This file is part of the Jose Project * see http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/ * (c) 2002-2006 Peter Sch?fer * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * */ import java.io.*; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLDecoder; public class Main { public static File getFile(URL url) { return new File(getFilePath(url)); } public static String getFilePath(URL url) { return URLDecoder.decode(url.getPath()); } }