How to pack resources in a Maven Project?

Question

I am looking for suggestion in putting image file maven web project. One of classes under src/main/java need to use an image file. My problem is, if i put image file under s

Answer 1

It seems that your problem is the way you read the image. You can't (or shouldn't) read the image from a Path. The Path might change on every system.

You need to read the image from the classpath like:

MyClass.class.getResource("/images/image.jpg")

or

MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/images/image.jpg")

For this to work, the image Folder needs to be on the classpath. Maven will put everything in the classpath, that is under main/resources. So thats where your image folder should be.