Application path given by user during application installation

Question

I am deploying a Java application. User chooses the installation directory of the app. I want to get that path so that i can pass the path for making a sqlite DB der.

Mostly it will be something like :

C:\Program Files\My App Name

or

C:\Program Files(x86)\My App Name

The problem is I cannot hardcode the DB location in my code, beacuse i want my application to have the flexibility to be installed on user's choice of path.

Answer 1

You can pass path dynamically in the run configuration of the Eclipse/IDE

-Dfilepath="C:\Program Files\My App Name"

Right click on project in the Explorer window --> Run As --> Run Configuration. Then go to Arguments tab.

Edit : Suppose you get the path of DB from user and then put it in the file C:\\Config\\config.txt . Now this txt file has your actual path where you want to create your db. So through your java program you can read this file and get the path.