I've got a problem that I'm stuck on. How do I programmatically get the executing jar file's absolute path? I'm trying to look for a folder that is relative to the jar file's directory but I'm having ...

Here is a quote from Absolute Java, 1st Ed, by Walter Savitch: "Note that with a static method, the class name serves the same purpose as a calling object. (It would be legal to create an object of ...