How to use maven resources also as test resources

Question

I have a maven project that loads an xslt file and executes the transformation along with other processing on the result. Normally when the user runs the application, the us

Answer 1

If you put a file foo.txt inside src/test/resources/, you can open this via:

// try-with-resource (Java 1.7)
try (InputStream is = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("foo.txt")) {
    // do something with is...
}

You can also take a look at the maven-resources-plugin.