Java Swing: Displaying images from within a Jar

Question

When running a Java app from eclipse my ImageIcon shows up just fine.

But after creating a jar the path to the image obviously gets screwed up.

Is there a wa

Answer 1

You can try something like:

InputStream stream = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/images/image.jpg");

In your JAR file, you might have a directory structure of:

MyJAR.jar
- com (class files in here)
- images
----image.jpg