JDK 9 unsafe import sun.misc.Launcher

Question

I've recently upgraded to JDK 9 and Eclipse complains that sun.misc.Launcher cannot be imported. It seems that sun.misc.Launcher is unsafe. I'm looking for an alternative to replace this line of code in my project.

final URL url = Launcher.class.getResource("/");

Any help would be appreciated.

Update: the more complete version of the above block of code is:

final URL url = Launcher.class.getResource("/");
final File fs = new File(url.toURI());
for (File f : fs.listFiles()) {
     System.out.println(f.getAbsolutePath());
}

This is to print all the files in the src folder when program is launched in IDE.

Answer 1

Class.getResource method can be invoked on any Class

final URL url = ClassInTheCurrentModule.class.getResource("/");

UPDATE

Edited based on Feedback from members

Answer 2

Calling the Class.getResource from any of the class in the module whose classes are being tried to access should work fine.

final URL url = ClassInTheCurrentModule.class.getResource("/");

The reason why the answer by shazin might return null is probably that with ClassLoader being a caller for the getResource call:

returns null when the resource is a non-".class" resource in a package that is not open to the caller's module.

Since ClassLoader belongs to the package java.lang in the module java.base to which your module might not be open.

Also, do note the resolution of the getResource is split further for named and unnamed modules.