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Asked: 2026-05-16T00:18:53+00:00

I try to load a property-file that is here <project>/resource/text/translation_en.properties With the following code

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I try to load a property-file that is here

<project>/resource/text/translation_en.properties

With the following code (in a static context, no Objects are initialized from me right now):

<This_Classes_name>.class.getResourceAsStream("/resource/text/translation_en.properties");

Why do I load it this way? First I use the class Object because getResourceAsStream() is not static and I learned through googling that I should use this method to load my property-file. Then I use a / that Java does not look relative to my Main.java, but the Project. Though, I still get null using that.

How can this not work, if there is a file in that exact place? What does Java do here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The resources need to be in the Classpath. One option is to copy the whole /resource folder int your source folder. One other option is to create a new source folder containing only the resources and move the /resource folder there. Don not make the /resource folder a source folder unless you want to use getResourceAsStream("/text/translation_en.properties");

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