[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Problem with finding a text file in Eclipse

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Eric Rizzo wrote:

> And to get the text file to be on the classpath by default, store it in 
> the source directory along with your Java code. Eclipse automatically 
> copies non-Java files from the source directories to the build output, 
> so they are on the runtime classpath by default.
> Alternatively, you can create an additional source directory just for 
> storing non-Java resources. That is actually the "clean" way to do it.
>
> Hope this helps,
>     Eric

Eric,

Thank you very much. You have hit the point that I am not clear about.

I already have found that my text file, temp.txt was automatically 
copied from the source folder (.../src/temp.txt) to the output folder ( 
.../bin/temp.txt). It was a shock to me. I am glad that you said it to me.

But, the problem remains:

BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("temp.txt"));

tells that the file temp.txt cannot be found. I get very confused and 
have spent a lot of time. I have tried Fresh, Project->Clean,.... 
Anything I can think of. But it still don't work. Even hard-coded the 
absolute path to temp.txt, Eclipse still cannot find it. So strange!

In the end, I gave up. I moved the file temp.txt to a folder outside of 
Eclipse workspace.

BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("absolute 
path to temp.txt"));

It works fine now.

Could you help me a little more? Thank you.