Hi.

I recently finished and application and created a jar file.

One of my classes creates an output directory populating it with files from it's resource.

The code is something like this:

// Copy files from dir "template" in this class resource to output.
private void createOutput(File output) throws IOException {

    File template = new File(FileHelper.URL2Path(getClass().getResource("template")));
    FileHelper.copyDirectory(template, output);
}

The problem is that now that I am running for a jar, this doesn't work.

I tried without luck:

• Using Streams to solve similar stuff on other classes but it doesn't work with dirs. Code was similar to http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.io/CopyFile.html
• Creating the File template with new File(getClass().getResource("template").toUri())

While writting this I was thinking about instead of having a template dir in the resource path having a zip file of it. Doing it this way I could get the file as an inputStream and unzip it where I need to. But I am not sure if it's the correct way.

Thanks for reading!