Accessing JAR resources

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Published on 2010-04-14T18:23:19Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 18:43 UTC
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I have a jar file with resources (mainly configuration for caches, logging, etc) that I want to distribute.

I'm having a problem with the relative paths for those resources, so I did what I've found in another stackoverflow question, which said that this was a valid way:

ClassInTheSamePackageOfTheResource.class.getResourceAsStream('resource.xml');

Sadly this does not work.

Any ideas? Thanks!

PS: Obviously I cannot use absolute paths, and I'd like to avoid environment variables if possible

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