Loading a resource

[John Sutt]

Dear all,

In the root of my project I have a "resources" folder which, among other things, has a few .properties files.
These files are moved into the root of the .jar file, which I export from this project.

In my code, i read these properties as follows:

URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemResource(propertyFile);

I'm not using the following, because, if I understand correctly, this searches relative to the MyClass class,
and hence will not find the file in the root of the .jar file.

URL url = MyClass.class.getResource(propertyFile);

Anyways, both of the above URLs were null when started with Java Web Start. I decided to print the classpath,
like this:

		String classPath = System.getProperty("java.class.path");
		log.info("Classpath is set to: " + classPath);

The result was

0    [javawsApplicationMain] INFO  mypackage.MyClass  - Classpath is set to: C:\Java\Sun\jdk1.6.0_13\jre\lib\deploy.jar

I was suprised not to see my myJar.jar file in here. Is that the reason it fails? And how can I make sure myJar.jar file is in the classpath?

This is in my .jnlp file:

<resources>
  <j2se version="1.2+" />
  <jar href="myJar.jar" main="true" />
</resources>

I thought that would be enough to put myJar.jar in the classpath, but apparantly not?
Hope somebody can help me,
John.

[John Sutt]

Aha!
The following does seem to work...

URL url = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource(propertyFile);

I wonder though, why the following, which I also tried, did not work then?

URL url = MyClass.class.getClassLoader().getResource(propertyFile);

Thanks.