reading xml file inside a jar-package

Question

Here\'s my structure:

• com/mycompany/ValueReader.class
• com/mycompany/resources/values.xml

I can read the file in my Eclipse project, but

Answer 1

You can't get a File object (since it's no longer a file once it's in the .jar), but you should be able to get it as a stream via getResourceAsStream(path);, where path is the complete path to your class.

e.g.

/com/mycompany/resources/values.xml