Question

My program has to use certain files that reside in another directory. Right now I am using absolute path to specify the location of the files. But I know that the relative position of these files will remain the same compared to where my program is residing. How I can use relative path in Java to specify the location of these files?

For example my program is residing in

/home/username/project/src/com/xyz/

..and the target files are in..

/home/username/project/secure/

Answer 1

Your current path.

 currentPath= /home/username/project/src/com/xyz/;

Relative path to “/home/username/project/secure/” folder is

relativePath= ../../../secure;