tips on avoiding hard coded paths and make a java app platform independent
HI all,
I would like to gather some tips on how to avoid hard coded file paths, which are plenty in the application I work on and which I inherited from previous programmers.
Also, when deploying to the production server, my app goes from a Windows platform to a Linux machine.
I am curious to know what tricks and tools other programmers find useful in similar contexts.
I am sure many of us would benefit from the discussion.
Thank you !
[480 byte] By [
GraziaRa] at [2007-11-27 10:31:27]
Actually, Java does this for you; you can use unix-style paths and they will still work, even on Windoze. To wit:
public static void main(String[] args) {
File f = new File("/");
System.out.println(f.getAbsolutePath());
}
Yields: C:\
public static void main(String[] args) {
File f = new File("/Program Files");
System.out.println(f.getAbsolutePath());
}
Yields: C:\Program Files
Resources as in getResourceAsStream.
java.util.prefs.Preferences
System properties like "user.home".
Thanks very much.
I also know that since file and directory separators differ between platforms one can use
System.getProperty("file.separator")
or use the static variable java.io.File.separator in order to determine the file separator for the current platform.
