Java Utililty Methods Class Path Create

String getClassBasePath(URL classUrl, Class clazz)
get Class Base Path

return getClassBasePath(classUrl, clazz.getName());

List getClassPathArchiveContents(final URL resource)
If the resource represents a classpath archive (i.e.

final List<String> contents = new ArrayList<String>();
if (isArchive(resource)) {
 final ZipFile archive = getArchive(resource);
 if (archive != null) {
 for (final Enumeration<? extends ZipEntry> entries = archive.entries(); entries
 .hasMoreElements();) {
 final ZipEntry entry = entries.nextElement();
 contents.add(entry.getName());
...

URL getClasspathResourceURL(String resourceName)
Get URL of a classpath resource

return Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(resourceName);

URL getClasspathUrl(final Class aClass, final String aPath)
get Classpath Url

if (aPath != null && aPath.startsWith(CLASSPATH_PREFIX)) {
 return getResourceUrl(aClass, aPath.substring(CLASSPATH_PREFIX.length()));
} else {
 return null;

URL getClasspathURL(final String name)
Gets the class path of a resource.

return ClassLoader.getSystemResource(name);

URL[] getClasspathURLs(String classpath)
Utility method that converts the components of a String representing a classpath into file URL(s).

StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(classpath, File.pathSeparator);
URL[] urls = new URL[st.countTokens()];
for (int i = 0; st.hasMoreTokens(); i++) {
 urls[i] = new File(st.nextToken()).getCanonicalFile().toURI().toURL();
return urls;