How to get the path of a running jar file?

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Published on 2008-11-26T12:30:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 21:34 UTC
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My code runs inside a jar file, say foo.jar, and I need to know, in the code, in which folder the running foo.jar is.

So, if foo.jar is in C:\FOO\, I want to get that path no matter what my current working directory is.

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