Thread: Cannot read files while running program from JAR-file

Hello!

I have a program that is a XML-parser, and it works fine when I'm running it from NetBeans. But when I create a JAR-file and run the very same program, it cannot find the xml file. Consider this small program that addresses my problem:

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
 
public class XMLTest {
 
        Document d;
 
        public XMLTest() throws ParserConfigurationException, FileNotFoundException, IOException, SAXException {
 
            String docString = "C:\\someXML.xml";
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbf;
            dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
 
            dbf.setValidating(true);
            dbf.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
 
            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
 
            InputStream in = new FileInputStream(docString);
 
            d = db.parse(in);
        }
 
 
    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParserConfigurationException, FileNotFoundException, IOException, SAXException {
 
        XMLTest t = new XMLTest();
    }
}

Hank

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Yes, seems like i forgot the DTD-file. You can close this thread.

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Thank you for your time!