Using java.nio.file.Path and java.nio.file.Paths, you can do the following to show what Java thinks is your current path. This for 7 and on, and uses NIO.


Path currentRelativePath = Paths.get(""); String s = currentRelativePath.toAbsolutePath().toString(); System.out.println("Current absolute path is: " + s);
This outputs:
Current absolute path is: /Users/dryden/NetBeansProjects/Tutorials
that in my case is where I ran the class from.
Constructing paths in a relative way, by not using a leading separator to indicate you are constructing an absolute path, will use this relative path as the starting point.

See: [Path Operations (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes > Basic I/O)](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/pathOps.html).
Using `java.nio.file.Path` and `java.nio.file.Paths`, you can do the following to show what Java thinks is your current path. This for 7 and on, and uses NIO.
Path currentRelativePath = Paths.get(""); String s = currentRelativePath.toAbsolutePath().toString(); System.out.println("Current absolute path is: " + s);
This outputs:
``` Current absolute path is: /Users/george/NetBeansProjects/Tutorials ``` that in my case is where I ran the class from.
Constructing paths in a relative way, by not using a leading separator to indicate you are constructing an absolute path, will use this relative path as the starting point.