Loading files OUTSIDE of a jar

[Sequalit]

Heheh... yeah i know i know, this should be an easy one... not

ive tried everything, ive looked everywhere, i cant seem to find an
answer. I saw posts that people made on loading resources that are
inside a jar and having problems... and it worked fine if the res were
not in the jar...

well im having the opposite problem. i cant load anything outside the
jar else it returns null... it works perfectly when i run in eclipse,
but it hates jars

(ive tried using .getClass.getResource() blah blah blah doesnt work)

but my file is a .properties that is external to the jar (jar is jnlp,
properties is a simple save file)

 

[andrewthommo]

Sequalit wrote:
...

ive tried everything,

Try using Upper Case at the beginning of each sentence.
(It won't solve your immediate technical problem, but
it might get you more, and better, help)

...ive looked everywhere,

Does 'everywhere' include here?
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/>

Andrew T.

 

[Ferenc Hechler]

i cant load anything outside the
jar else it returns null...

If you start your jar using "java -jar xxx.jar" you have to set the
Class-Path entry in the Manifest to ".".
Add the following line "Class-Path: ." to your "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF"
before the first empty line.

Best regards,

feri