Reading a data file as a Resource

Put the file to be read in the src/main/java/resource folder as shown on the right: eg. I put in the log4j.xml here, and I will read/output the file line by line.

Then you can access this resource from your code as following, remember to put the leading slash on the filename

            InputStream fstream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/log4j.xml");

            // Get the object of DataInputStream

            DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);

            BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));

            String strLine;

            //Read File Line By Line

            while ((strLine = br.readLine()) != null) {                

                System.out.println(strLine);

            }

            in.close();