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Lenar Hoyt
Lenar Hoyt

Reputation: 6159

How can I get the project name in java?

Is there an easier way to get the project name rather than parsing the path to the execution directory? JavaSE-1.6

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8085

Answers (2)

Koekiebox
Koekiebox

Reputation: 5963

If you are making use of a jar archive file for your application and ant builds you can do the following;

  1. You can have the ant build file set a value (Project-name) in the MANIFEST.MF file, excample;

    <manifest file="${basedir}\resources\jar\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF">
        <attribute name="Manifest-Version" value="1.0" />
        <attribute name="Version" value="${release.version}" />
        <attribute name="Company" value="S1" />
        <attribute name="Project" value="<project_name>" />
        <attribute name="Java-Version" value="1.5" />
    </manifest>
</target>

<target name="dist_jar" depends="create_manifest">
    <delete file="${basedir}\build\jar\${jar.name}" />

    <!--Create the JAR for the build-->

    <jar jarfile="${basedir}\resources\jar\${jar.name}" 
        manifest="${basedir}\resources\jar\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF" 
        basedir="${jar.classes}" />
</target>
  1. Read the Project name from the MANIFEST.MF. See Read Manifest from Java code.

Upvotes: 2

Stephen C
Stephen C

Reputation: 718788

Ah OK. I'm working with Eclipse. There it's called project name and it's the string of the folder which contains the whole application.

Firstly, this is an IDE-specific concept. Java (in general) has no concept of a project.

Second, it is probably not a good idea to make a program depend on the name of the Eclipse project. That will cause problems if you ever try to run your program independently of Eclipse and the build environment.

Upvotes: 3

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