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Matthew Brzezinski
Matthew Brzezinski

Reputation: 1794

Jar not finding resources

I'm working on a project and compiling and running through my IDE works fine. All resources are found and it works properly. However, when I build my .jar it's able to find some resources but not all. My project structure looks like so:

src
    res
        image.png
        image1.png
        about.html
    tmp
        somefilehere.txt
    myFile.java

When I run my jar file it's able to find the images and use them, however when I try to access the html file it won't open. Here's what the project structure for the jar;

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I haven't messed around with jar files before so this may seem very obvious mistake I am making. Any help is appreciated thanks!

EDIT: Code that accesses the file which isn't being found,

private void openURL(String url) {
    try {
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler " + url);
    }
    ...catch exceptions...
 }

EDIT: Structure of the jar file looks like,

META-INF
res
    image.png
    image1.png
    about.html
tmp
    somefile.txt
myclass.class

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1394

Answers (1)

Adarsh Singhal
Adarsh Singhal

Reputation: 362

First of all make sure that you've all resources in project folder. While building jar, you need to attach working directory. Make sure that directory contain resources. I tried out it in netbeans & jar is working fine showing images. What I usually do... I select src folder as working project folder & that folder contain res folder for images. Try it. I hope it would help.

Upvotes: 1

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