getResourceAsStream() vs FileInputStream

Question

I was trying to load a file in a webapp, and I was getting a FileNotFound exception when I used FileInputStream. However, using the same path, I wa

Answer 1

FileInputStream will load a the file path you pass to the constructor as relative from the working directory of the Java process. Usually in a web container, this is something like the bin folder.

getResourceAsStream() will load a file path relative from your application's classpath.