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Where does Java Webstart save the jar files that it downloads?

843802Jun 13 2008 — edited Jul 29 2008
I am making application that loads certain files off of hard drive as it starts up. I put those files into a signed data.jar file, and put it in resources area of JNLP file. Then I attempt to read every file in data.jar and output it to a folder on local hard drive at user.home. However if I launch the jnlp file from my website then it can't find jar file, and the location user.dir does not show any jar files at all.

Where does Web Start save the jar files that it downloads to? What would be a method to get a path to that location from run-time code? I would like to just read it in and unzip it.
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