Where does Java put resource files when I JAR my program?

Question

Been looking for this for the past 2 hours and can\'t find anything (I\'ve found solutions to the same problem but with images, not text files).

Pretty much, I made a pr

Answer 1

Get the location of your jar file

Firstly create a folder(say myfolder) and put your files inside it

Consider the following function

public String path(String filename)
{
URL url1 = getClass().getResource("");
String ur=url1.toString();
ur=ur.substring(9);
String truepath[]=ur.split("myjar.jar!");
truepath[0]=truepath[0]+"myfolder/";
truepath[0]=truepath[0].replaceAll("%20"," ");
return truepath[0]+filename;
}//This method will work on Windows and Linux as well.
//You can alternatively use the following line to get the path of your jar file
//classname.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath();

Suppose your jar file is in D:\Test\dist

Then path() will return /D:/Test/dist/myfolder/filename

Now you can place 'myfolder' inside the folder where your jar file is residing

OR

If you want to access some read-only file inside your jar you should copy it to one

of your packages and can access it as

yourClassname.getResource("/packagename/filename.txt");