Question

can anyone help?

I have reading various blogs and it appears to include i18n properties and otherfiles i have to add them as module dependency, choose Jar .. Directories and then chosing “classes” category.

I have done this but i keep getting an error saying that it can’t find an XML file. Specfically this

admin-sidebar.xml

I managed to fix this by adding the 2 directories under Projec Settings, SDK, and adding them to classpath.

but this is annoying that it doesn’t work the way in the tutorials.. i must be doing something wrong.

I have to add 2 directories into the class path.

the first directory has about 8 .properties files, these are standard javabundles.

the next directory has the following content

admin-sidebar.xml METAINF (a directory) mime.types (a file inside the
METAINF directory)

Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong, of course i can leave it the way i have done which seems to fix the issue, but it just feels like i am not doing it right

Any ideas or help?

Thanks in advance

EDIT

Here is the project zipped up.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0ByGL4ug6mtrsdFFNNmtZNXMxV0k

Ok, this is what i am doing, add modules but it doens’t work

how it looks when adding, i choose classes

and this is how it looks when added

This above doesn’t work, but adding it directly too the jdk class path works, notice its the same 2 dirs.

The contents of the directory are (in order)

Answer 1

You either configure it as a library (classpath) entry added to the module dependencies or you set up the directory as Sources so that these files are automatically added to the classpath (and copied to output according to Settings | Compiler | Resource Patterns).

If this approach doesn’t work, please share a sample project with either configuration showing the issue.

See also my reply to the related question: Add a properties file to IntelliJ's classpath.