referencing data files in jars

Question

My Java program references a lot of data files. I put them in a top level directory called data/, along with src/ and bin/. In Eclipse, references to data/ and ../data/ both s

Answer 1

Thanks for pointing me down this path, guys. I ended up doing a really hacked up workaround because I'm not very good with IO yet. I used getClass() to construct a URL:

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5258488

Then made a new File object from this string (new File(file)):

String file = url.toString().replaceFirst("file:", "");

This allowed me to keep the same code that referenced the file objects.