How to read a file from jar in Java?

Question

I want to read an XML file that is located inside one of the jars included in my class path. How can I read any file which is included in the jar?<

Answer 1

Just for completeness, there has recently been a question on the Jython mailinglist where one of the answers referred to this thread.

The question was how to call a Python script that is contained in a .jar file from within Jython, the suggested answer is as follows (with "InputStream" as explained in one of the answers above:

PythonInterpreter.execfile(InputStream)