How can I get the project name in java?

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Is there an easier way to get the project name rather than parsing the path to the execution directory? JavaSE-1.6

What's a "project name" to Java? That's usually managed by an IDE, and has nothing to do with Java itself. — mellamokb
– mellamokb, Commented Oct 10, 2011 at 23:30
Java doesn't have anything like a "project". Are you referring to IDE projects (e.g. projects in Eclipse, NetBeans or whatever you're using)? — user824425
– user824425, Commented Oct 10, 2011 at 23:32
in non-static context, you could call this.getClass().getPackage(); to get the package name. Maybe that'll help. — Bala R
– Bala R, Commented Oct 10, 2011 at 23:32

Stephen C · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-10 23:41:21Z

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Ah OK. I'm working with Eclipse. There it's called project name and it's the string of the folder which contains the whole application.

Firstly, this is an IDE-specific concept. Java (in general) has no concept of a project.

Second, it is probably not a good idea to make a program depend on the name of the Eclipse project. That will cause problems if you ever try to run your program independently of Eclipse and the build environment.

answered Oct 10, 2011 at 23:41

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Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:19:56Z

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If you are making use of a jar archive file for your application and ant builds you can do the following;

You can have the ant build file set a value (Project-name) in the MANIFEST.MF file, excample;

    <manifest file="${basedir}\resources\jar\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF">
        <attribute name="Manifest-Version" value="1.0" />
        <attribute name="Version" value="${release.version}" />
        <attribute name="Company" value="S1" />
        <attribute name="Project" value="<project_name>" />
        <attribute name="Java-Version" value="1.5" />
    </manifest>
</target>

<target name="dist_jar" depends="create_manifest">
    <delete file="${basedir}\build\jar\${jar.name}" />

    <!--Create the JAR for the build-->

    <jar jarfile="${basedir}\resources\jar\${jar.name}" 
        manifest="${basedir}\resources\jar\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF" 
        basedir="${jar.classes}" />
</target>

Read the Project name from the MANIFEST.MF. See Read Manifest from Java code.

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:19

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answered Oct 11, 2011 at 12:26

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3 Comments

Stephen C Over a year ago

Hmmm ... is that the Eclipse project name, or the project name from the Ant build.xml file?

Koekiebox Over a year ago

I just made it project name as an example. The closest thing I got to retrieving the project name from the .project eclipse file is: blog.vizio360.co.uk/2009/11/…

Koekiebox Over a year ago

Yo can also strip the ${basedir} property. See stackoverflow.com/questions/2454128/…

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