Help with jars webstart and InputStream

Question

I am currently attempting to fix all the things that break
the minute you attempt to use a jar under webstart.
I have attempted to find an answer by searching the forums.
I cannot determine how to overcome the following.
I have third party jars for "Jasper reports" and the loadReport
function requires a java.io.InputStream as input.
"public static JasperReport loadReport(java.io.InputStream inputStream) throws JRException"
The report templates are in my jar file in a sub directory "\sreports".
I was loading the template with the following code.
JasperReport template = JasperManager.loadReport(new FileInputStream(reportFile));
Where
String reportFile = ".\\sreports\\Std"+tableName+".jasper";
I have tried several things including below.
FileInputStream fs = new FileInputStream(getClass().getResource("sreports/StdEquipmentType.jasper"));
which does not even complile.
Rykk

Answer 1

Get your input stream like:
InputStream in = getClass().getResourceAsStream("path/to/file.txt");
note that you use "/" and not "\" or "\\" no matter what OS you are using.