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[Jessid Leon Velez Gutierrez]

Hello. I have a question: I am creating an application that want to pack in a jar file. That app uses a couple of plain text files. I want to include thouse 2 files into the jar, but i havent been able to make the app to read them. I dont know how to doit. Perhaps some of you could help me please with that.

Thanks a lot!

[Stevi Deter]

Jessid,

In order to help you, we'll need some more detail.

Where are you putting the file?

What's the code that's trying to open it?

What exception are you seeing (full stack trace helps)?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

If he doesn't know how to do it, I don't think we need any more detail!

To read files out of the jar a program is packed into, you can't use things like FileReader and FileInputStream. Instead, use the ClassLoader methods that find files along the classpath, like this:

InputStream theFile = getClass().getResourceAsStream("thefile.txt");