[news.eclipse.platform] Re: How to reference a file packaged in a plugin

[Rich Kulp <richkulp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The way is to use InputStreams and

this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("filename relative to the package of 
the class doing getResourceAsStream")

or

this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/filename relative to root of jar")

The difference between the two above is the leading slash ('/'). Without 
the leading slash the file is relative to the package the class is 
located in, with the slash, it is relative to the root of the jar instead.

File(loc) doesn't work on files within a jar. It only works on files in 
the file system.

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp