Thread: Problem creating text file using the using class.getResource()

Hi
I'm having a problem with this code im creating a small application that just creates a txt file in my resource folder the problem is is I keep getting this exception
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException

Now I dont get this exception if I change my code to this but I actually want to run this app as a standalone so this code wouldnt be effiencent help would be grateful

public void directoryFile()
	{
		path = Paths.get( "C:/Users/Genesis/Desktop/cv/My Applications/" +
		                 	"Running Jar File Image Directory/Load Folders With Jar File 4/src/resources/jenny.txt" );
 
	}

package loadFileWithJarFile;
 
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URISyntaxException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
 
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
 
public class LoadFileWithJar extends JFrame 
{
 
	/**
	 * 
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
 
	private Path path;
 
	public LoadFileWithJar() 
	{
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
		super();
		setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
 
		makeTextFile();
 
		setSize( 500, 500 );
		setVisible( true );
	}
 
	public void directoryFile()
	{
 
		try 
		{
			path = Paths.get( LoadFileWithJar.class.getResource( "/resources/jeny.txt" ).toURI()  );
		} 
		catch (URISyntaxException e)
		{
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}			
	}
 
	public void makeTextFile() 
	{
		directoryFile();
 
		try 
		{
			Files.createFile( path );
		}
		catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
 
	}
 
	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) 
	{
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		SwingUtilities.invokeLater( new Runnable() 
		{
 
			@Override
			public void run() 
			{
				// TODO Auto-generated method stub
				new LoadFileWithJar();				
			}
 
		});
 
	}
 
}