If I know the class, how can I find out which bank it is from?

Question

I can now use clazz.getClassLoader (). getResource (class.getName ()), then tweak the url to get the location of the jar file, but I really want to know if there is a better way to do this.

Is there an API for this? thanks.

Answer 1

If your class is called Foo

URL classLocation = Foo.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation() 

classLocation will contain the URL from which the class was loaded. Either the folder for a separate class, or jar / zip.