Preferred way of loading resources in Java

Question

I would like to know the best way of loading a resource in Java:

• this.getClass().getResource() (or getResourceAsStream()),
• Thread.c

Answer 1

I tried a lot of ways and functions that suggested above, but they didn't work in my project. Anyway I have found solution and here it is:

try {
    InputStream path = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("img/left-hand.png");
    img = ImageIO.read(path);
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}