Hi,

I know a quick and dirty solution:

1) get the file out of the jar
2) write it to a temporary file
3) work with that temporary file in your application
4) when the application exits, don't forget to delete the temporary file!

As I said, it's dirty but it works.

-- Didi

PS: Attached is a code snippet that I use for this purpose:

import java.io.*;
import java.util.jar.*;

public class Helper implements GewiAdminConstants {

    private String home;

    public Helper() {

    home =
getClass().getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().getPath().replaceAll("%20",
" ");
    }

    public static String getTmpDir() {
   
    String tmp = System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir");
    if (!tmp.endsWith("/"))
       tmp += "/";
    return tmp;
    }

    public void getResource(String name) {

    try {
       JarFile jar = new JarFile(home);
       JarEntry entry = jar.getJarEntry(name);
       File f = new File(getTmpDir() + entry.getName());
       if (!f.exists()) {
        InputStream entryStream = jar.getInputStream(entry);
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(getTmpDir() +
entry.getName());
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int bytesRead;
        while ((bytesRead = entryStream.read(buffer)) != -1)
           fos.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
        entryStream.close();
        fos.close();
       }
    }
    catch (IOException ex) {
       ex.printStackTrace();
       System.err.println("Could not get resource '" + name + "'!");
    }
    }

}