getResourceAsStream() doesn't see resource

Question

I want to unpack resources from my jar file. The structure of jar looks like this:

my.jar
    META-INF
    resources
        my.exe
        my.dll
    my
                


        

Answer 1

Delete the leading slash, getResourceAsStream will use the absolute path if the first character is a slash.

Answer 2

You seem to be writing Java... Not sure if this will get you round your problem, but the above could be written in Groovy as:

this.getClass().getResource( '/resources/my.exe' ).withInputStream { ris ->
  new File( destDir ).withOutputStream { fos ->
    fos << ris
  }
}