Reading a text file in a jar

Question

I make an application that need to acces to a small text file within a jar file.
Never used it before, and don't really know how to do it correctly.
could anyone show me the way to create this small part of code ?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Just use the getResource or getResourceAsStream. They exist in the java.lang.Class class (which actually call the current ClassLoader which has the same methods).
An example follows below, the text file should be added to the root of the jar file.
Don't forget the first / in the filename, if you do the method will return null..
----- Code begin -----
import java.io.*;
public class Test
     public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
          InputStream in = Test.class.getResourceAsStream("/test.txt");
          BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
          System.out.println(reader.readLine());
          reader.close();
----- Code end -----
Good luck,
Daniel