Jar download folder?

Question

Hello to all,
i am proving to write code for using with webstart and have a problem. I want to my aplication unzip the jar files that were downloaded but, where does webstart download them? I have searched and i have seen that a structure od folder are created depending of the domain and port. How can i compound the whole tree? Webstart rename some folders and the jar files too. I need the whole path to pass it to my application to catch the jar's from the correct path. And.. is it possible to change the download folder?
Another question:
Tracing my program, i have seen that webstart doesn't run my program in the jar's download folder. It runs it in my user desktop folder, and so, my program doesn't find any jar to unzip there. Are any way to tell to webstart where to run the application? I.d. the jar download folder.
Thak you very much for you attention

Answer 1

I run into the same problem. The user of the application will need to alter some files to use the
application. There are two possible solutions:
-Store the configuration files on the server
-Store them locally
Storing them on the servers would be nice however:
->There will have to be a server that automatically stores & sends back files as requested by
the user. Implementing such a server is not trivial on one hand and second, depending on
the network speed and file size can be quite slow. Also, there will have to be a login necessary
to access files and ...
Ok, I decided to store them locally. I am just about to do it, so that's the plan:
-> ZIP the files to be unpacked on the local system and put them into a .jar file sent as resource
when loading the Java Web Start Application. Accessing will be easy and can be done with:
this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("PATH TO ZIP FILE");
The important part is to put the zipped files again into a jar file, that way, unzipping can be
done easy without having to find the jar file on the local file system!