Reading a file from a jar, or anywhere on the classpath?

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Published on 2010-03-18T03:17:12Z Indexed on 2010/03/18 3:21 UTC
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I'm trying to build an application that builds a resource file into a jar, but I'd like to have the project runnable within eclipse. I have a basic maven 2 structure for my project, and I'm unsure how to read in the file such that it's found and used when run from the JAR or from within eclipse. Thought?

Structure:

src/main/java
src/main/resources/file.txt

Current reading method:

getClass().getResourceAsStream("/file.txt")

Is there reading method that will pick up src/main/resources/*, as well as the root level of the JAR (where resources are deployed)?

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