The Maven POM: Every Java project that uses Maven has a POM (project object model) file in its root directory. The pom.xml describes the project’s dependencies and tells you how to build it.

println "Temporary Directory (java.io.tmpdir):nt${System.getProperty('java.io.tmpdir')}" The next screen snapshot shows the above script being run twice from its own containing directory and from ...

Java has no notion of a "current working directory" per se IIRC - user.dir is not always set to the directory the user started the app from. You can find that however - search in Google groups.