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

classname.getResourceAsStream() loads a file via the classloader of classname. If the class came from a jar file, that is where the resource will be loaded from.

FileInputStream is used to read a file from the filesystem.