Classpath resource not found

Question

Right, this one is really strange. I'm trying to build a Java project, which loads stuff at run-time from a lib.so file. The file is in the right directory, the classpath is set, but I still get the same error that the file is not found. I println()'d the entire path of the expected file, which matched exactly the absolute physical location and name of that .so file.

Basically, it complains explicitly that the file cannot be found when it is there (the nature of the error explicitly refers to the inability to find the file, and not the loading or the functionality or the ELFness of the file).

Any hints?

Answer 1

Solution

The problem was solved after explicitly querying the java classpath at run-time using

System.getProperty("java.class.path");

and printing out all the results. It showed that the path of the expected file was relative to a different classpath which in turn was relative to the current directory of the project.