read file out of jar

[matt271]

in java how do u read a file out of its own jar?

say u made some program in netbeans and had netbeans package it into a jar for u, but u also have an image say "image.jpg"

how can i open it like File("image.jpg"); is its in the JAR file itself, not in the same dir as the jar file??

ty

[rizzix]

Code:

import java.io.*; import java.util.jar.*;  .  .  . Jar jar = new Jar("<path to jar file>"); ZipEntry imgEntry = jar.getEntry("image.jpg"); InputStream in = jar.getInputStream(imgEntry);