Accessing a file inside a .jar file [duplicate]

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When your resourse is in JAR file, it’s not a File anymore. A File is only a physical file on the filesystem.
Solution: use getResourceAsStream. Something like this:

new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(getClass().getResourceAsStream("/resources/" + filename)))

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