Image location

Question

Hello,
Getting a null pointer exception. I am using Ant to compile my packages - the directory looks like this
root
|
|-----images
|-----src
| |-----comp
| |------screen
|----clasess
| |-----comp
| |------screen
The images are being included in the jar that ant creates and my code has worked until i decided to put things in to packages.
My code is
     URL logo = this.getClass().getResource("images/im.gif");so i know that the images are being included but that the directory its looking in is wrong. How can i specify that root is the normal working directory and then to go to the images folder!
Any ideas? Is it something to do with this.getClass or what!
Regards,
John

Answer 1

And just to throw more confusion onto the whole subject, the code that I have used repeatedly actually uses Class and not ClassLoader:
     public InputStream getResource(String uri)
          throws IOException, ResourceNotFoundException {
          URL urlResource = this.getClass().getResource(uri);
          if (urlResource == null)
               throw new ResourceNotFoundException(uri);
          URLConnection urlConnection = urlResource.openConnection();
          return urlConnection.getInputStream();
     }Play with your classpath settings. The resource loader will undoubtedly have to use that in some way to find a given uri.
- Saish