Copying data files upon build in Java/Eclipse

Question

Along with my java source, I have some data files that I would like to copy to the build dir when the source is build. Currently I am not using any build tools (e.g. maven o

Answer 1

Eclipse isn't really meant to copy things around (it may have that feature and I don't know about it). Like you alluded to, that's a job for Maven or Ant. However, for your JUnit tests, you have a couple of options...

• Open the data files based on a project relative path.
• Use getResourceAsStream(filename) and add the data files to the build-path