Question

I am trying to distribute a netbeans project however the jar it creates and the contents of the dist folder are dependant on some image files which i included into the project – however these images are not in the dist folder and I cannot workout how to make things work so I can export the project in a distributable format including all the things it needs.

Can somebody please tell me how I can export a project which runs within Netbeans without using the project’s /dist folder which includes everything it needs?

Cheers

Andy

Answer 1

One way to achieve this is to add a folder (f.i.”resources”) in your project’s src dir. Then copy the images to that dir. Now the images should get included when you build the project (if I remember correctly). Accessing the files can be accomplished with “getResourceAsStream”…