Absolute Path of Project's folder in Java

Question

Lots of confusion in this topic. Several Questions have been asked. Things still seem unclear. ClassLoader, Absolute File Paths etc etc

Suppose I have a project dire

Answer 1

First, make sure the lib directory is in your classpath. You can do this by adding the command line parameter in your startup script:

$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -classpath .:lib com.example.MyMainClass

save this as MyProject/start.sh or any os dependent script.

Then you can access the textfile.txt (as rightly mentioned by Mark) as:

// if you want this as a File
URL res = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("text/textfile.txt");
File f = new File(res.getFile());

// As InputStream
InputStream in = getClass().getClassLoader()
        .getResourceAsStream("text/textfile.txt");