loading files from a jar

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frank - 27 Oct 2005 16:10 GMT

Had something working just fine when the files where on the local file
system but now that I have them in a jar it's not working. I believe
the paths are correct just seems to be going to the local file system
and not the jar file.

String styleSheet = xss/style.xsl

TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(
styleSheet));

Thanks,

Frank

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Roedy Green - 31 Oct 2005 11:19 GMT

>Had something working just fine when the files where on the local file
>system but now that I have them in a jar it's not working. I believe
>the paths are correct just seems to be going to the local file system
>and not the jar file.

It is behaving as advertised.

you are doing effectively
new StreamSource( "xss/style.xsl" );

StreamSource is expecting an URL, e.g. the result of a getResource.

You gave it a relative URL which I presume it is interpreting as:

file:xxx/style.xsl

a file in the CWD of the local file system, not a resource.

Try feeding the rnesult of a getResourceAsStream(" xss/style.xsl" );
instead where that file is stored under the current package name in
the jar.

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/image.html

and
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/resource.html

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