I have the following structure in a Java Web Application:

TheProject
  -- [Web Pages]
  -- -- [WEB-INF]
  -- -- -- abc.txt
  -- -- index.jsp
  -- [Source Packages]
  -- -- [wservices]
  -- -- -- WS.java

In WS.java, I am using the following code in a Web Method:

InputStream fstream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("abc.txt");

But it is always returning a null. I need to read from that file, and I read that if you put the files in WEB-INF, you can access them with getResourceAsStream, yet the method is always returning a null.

Any ideas of what I may be doing wrong?

Btw, the strange thing is that this was working, but after I performed a Clean and Build on the Project, it suddenly stopped working :/