Don't believe there is such a JRE. I mostly handle paths like I would normally on windows and they work ok on the JVM: "c:/whatever/another_dir/some.file" The

Don't believe there is such a JRE. I mostly handle paths like I would normally on windows and they work ok on the JVM: "c:/whatever/another_dir/some.file" There's also cygpath to convert between Windows/Unix style paths: http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/html/cygpath.html http://cygwin-lite.sourceforge.net/html/cygpath.html