Question

At the moment, in my java program, I am accessing a file that is in the project folder. When I’m loading the file its path is “./src/package/package/file.txt”. When I build the program into an executable it dosen’t work.

I would prefer the files to be outside of the .jar, but in the same folder, how would I got about this?

Samishal

Answer 1

You can use Class.getResourceAsStream to get the InputStream. It works for jar package too. It is not possible to access the file in jar file using File API directly.

InputStream ins = Class.getResourceAsStream("/gigadot/exp/resource.properties");

More details at http://blog.gigadot.net/2010/10/loading-classpath-resources.html