How to use maven resources also as test resources

Question

I have a maven project that loads an xslt file and executes the transformation along with other processing on the result. Normally when the user runs the application, the us

Answer 1

My problem is that I want to run tests against those xslt files in testing phase. How can I achieve this?

There is nothing to do, target/classes is on the class path of tests. More precisely, the class path for tests is:

• first target/test-classes
• then target/classes
• then dependencies

So resources from src/main/resources (which are copied into target/classes) are visible from tests.

Answer 2

If you put a file foo.txt inside src/test/resources/, you can open this via:

// try-with-resource (Java 1.7)
try (InputStream is = getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("foo.txt")) {
    // do something with is...
}

You can also take a look at the maven-resources-plugin.