Why does getResource return null

Question

I\'m trying to access a file in my project. But getResource method returns null.

This is how my project looks like:

Answer 1

There are lot of ways to add a resource to the jar file, you can put it in src, add as a resource if you use maven, ant etc... If you able to bundle whole directory then you should be able to use your original piece of code. With the current structure you can use following piece of code.

Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("/xxx.png").