Re: Resource from a jar file

> I'm having some trouble with mergeTemplate() in that it seems to be unable
> to open a template file if it is packaged in a jar file.  In my Java code, I
> use getResource("resources/velocity.template").getFile() [from the "Class"
> object] to expand the relative location to a full URL.  This is for
> flexibility/portability...  This approach works fine when *not* running my
> app from a Jar file because the file name expands to a simple path,
> something like: "/home/mark/resources/velocity.template" whereas when run
> from a Jar file, it expands to something like:
> "file:/home/mark/MyApp.jar!/resources/velocity.template", and thus
> mergeTemplate doesn't like this format... probably the "file:" or the "!"
> throw it off.
>
> I'm not sure how to get past this hurdle.  Any ideas?
>
> Mark
>
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