Spring Boot access static resources missing scr/main/resources

Question

I am working on a Spring Boot application. I need to parse an XML file (countries.xml) on start. The problem is that I do not understand where to put it so that I could acce

Answer 1

You need to use following construction

InputStream in = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/yourFile");

Please note that you have to add this slash before your file name.