AppBundler: wrong working directory (original) (raw)

Greg Brown greg.x.brown at oracle.com
Tue Feb 28 09:30:21 PST 2012

Hi Tobi,

You are correct - the Ant bundler doesn't currently set the working directory. I have proposed modifying the launcher app to set the working directory to the bundle root:

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2012-February/003289.html

However, I'm not sure that would have any effect on the behavior you are seeing. The launcher is now calling JLI_Launch() to start the JVM rather than calling into JNI directly. JLI_Launch() may be setting the working directory to the user's home directory (which may be intentional - I'm not sure yet).

What impact does this have on your app? Is it something you could work around if it turns out that user.home is the correct default?

G

On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Tobias Bley wrote:

Hi,

When I create an *.app with the new AppBundler ant task I don't get the right working directory. File workingDirectory = new File(".").getAbsolutePath(); => /Users/

When I try this with Apples JavaAppLauncher with JDK6 I get => /Contents/Resources/ I suppose the problem is that the AppBundler ant task does not set the working directory into the app-bundle... Any suggestions? Best regards, Tobi

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