Thread: Loading a file in a different folder

Hey guys.

Say I have two folders in my project:
src/main/java
src/main/resources

And I have code in the src/main/java folder, and this code wants to load a file that is in the src/main/resources folder. How would I go about doing that without using the location like this "C:\Documents And Settings\Workspace..."

Isn't there some way to use that path instead? Like this "/ProjectName/src/main/resources"?

So my code looks like this:
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("what goes here?");

Thanks

I take it this is a Maven project you are working with?

If so then everything you put in the resources folder will automagically be copied into your classes folder.You might want to have a look at using a classloader to load the file using getResource.

MyClass.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("filename");

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