Accessing a resource within a jar (working in Netbeans but not on command line)

Question

I have a jar file with bundled resources (language model binary files) that need loading at run time. The directory structure within the jar is

tagger/app.class
tag

Answer 1

You can't access a resource in a Jar file via java.io.File. You should provide an alternate constructor for SentenceDetector which either accepts an InputStream rather than a String, or which accepts an URL and uses URL.openStream() to get an InputStream.