Making relative calls to jar files

Hi,
I want to access my help system from within a jar file using the jar protocol. The issue is that I don't want to enter a fixed path to my jar file. I want something relative like this -
URL hsURL = HelpSet.findHelpSet(null, "jar:file://..\myjarfile.jar!/myfile.hs);
An not something fixed like this -
URL hsURL = HelpSet.findHelpSet(null, "jar:file://c:\myfolder\myjarfile.jar!/myfile.hs);
Any workarounds? Great, Thanks.

Hallo,
I have the same problem.
The Directory "..\myApp\help" contains the files
myhelp.hs, myhelp.jhm and all the files for JavaHelp
It works fine but if I JARed the "help" Directory and change the URL to "jar:file://E:\\javaHelp\\myhelp.jar!/help/myhelp.hs" the file myhelp.hs could not be found.
What is wrong?

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