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Hi all,
We have a java web start app that uses the jasper reports libraries to produce pdf reports. When running and testing from the ide the prog works ok. However when we place the jar on the web server and run the web start app the prog complains "the system cannot find the file specified".
The xml files are stored in the jar under a directory called reports. The code access the files like so. (We are temporarily writing the output file to c drive.)
JasperCompileManager.compileReportToFile("reports\\airexportagy.xml","c:\\airexportagy.jasper");
IS there a different way one is supposed to access these resources from a jar file using web start?
THanks

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