Problem accessing file from jar file in Java

Question

I have a jar called App.jar and it's structure is as follows

App.jar
    |
    |
    |---xyzfolder
    |       |
    |       |--config
    |            |
    |            |--config.properties 
    |  
    | 
    |---com (contains classes)
          |
          |--MyClass.class

Now what I want is that I want to access config.properties file from MyClass.class

Answer 1

Have you tried the following?

this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("classpath:/xyzfolder/config/config.properties");

see http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/ClassLoader.html#getSystemResourceAsStream%28java.lang.String%29