Question

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

Answer 1

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>

2. Read the Project name from the MANIFEST.MF. See Read Manifest from Java code.