Embarrassingly dumb question about files, but it's got dukes attached . . .

I've got a project that may be set up to run as an application, or as a WebStart, or as an Applet, or any combination thereof.
I've got some persistent data I'd like to stick in a file, local to the user's machine, somewhere that would be easy for the program to find. Can anybody suggest a place to put it, that would be both platform-independent and independent of whether this thing is being run as an Application, a WebStart, or an Applet?
I ought to know this.
JHHL

I think System.getProperty( "user.home" ) does the
trick, especially if the data is 'per user'. On
Windows, for instance, this returns c:\Documents and
Settings\UserName. You can stick your file in a
properly named (try to be unique) subdirectory.Certainly a thought. One that had occurred to me as well, but still worth a couple of dukes. Although it would more properly be "per machine", rather than "per user."
In the case of the Applet, there's the possibility of storing the license data file (and possibly also a configuration file, or perhaps even one file containing both ) in the same place where the Applet itself lives. Any suggestions on how I might handle that?

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