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Hello,

I am new to the Mac. I am trying to port some Java applications to my iBook.

However, no matter what I try, I am unable to get getResourceAsStream() to work.


Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
 
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I've never had an issue with it. It might help if you could be more explicit about what "unable to work" means.
 
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Thanks for the reply.

I mean that no matter what I try, it keeps returning null. With exactly the same code I have no problem on either a Win or a Linux system. I can't figure out how it works on the Mac and why it would be different.

Essentially, I have a "configuration" file for a class. For instance, if I have com.company.SomeClass, and bundled with it I have com.company.SomeClass.config, I am making a call such as:

SomeClass sc = new SomeClass();
InputStream is = sc.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/com/company/SomeClass.config");


Also tried the same thing in virtually every combination I could think of (using ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream, using the Mac file separator, omitting the leading slash... )


Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
 
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I'm at a loss as to why it doesn't work on a Mac, but have you tried this:



Just a thought...
 
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I posted a follow up here:

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/support-dpml/2005q1/000609.html


Cheers,
Dave
 
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From that link, it looks like you are working with the old MacOS (9-), rather than OS X? The reason I conclude that is that the file separator on the old MacOS is ":", but on OS X it is "/" just like any other Unix. The JVM on the old MacOS is ancient, so I'm not surprised it doesn't support reflection well.
 
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Warren, I think you'll find that the separator in OS X is still ":", and that's what Dave is getting at in the posted follow-up.
[ April 08, 2005: Message edited by: Ben Poole ]
 
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I think that there may be confusion about what separator is being talked about.

/ is the folder separator, as in /usr/local/tomcat5

: is the path separator, as you would use in the classpath to separate the component folders
 
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Originally posted by Bear Bibeault:
I think that there may be confusion about what separator is being talked about.


Indeed, my apologies for my part in that. Returning to the issue at hand, I believe Dave has found a work-around, per his linked post. He says,

The Mac does not use the Sun implementation. I have no idea who makes it...
Anyway, it doesn't work the same way.


Well, I can at least answer this one: Sun don't provide a Java implementation for OS X: they leave it to Apple. So I guess it's Apple who are responsible in this instance. I don't imagine for a minute they're going to provide more detail on how the classloader works, but you never know...
 
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