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Google Guava is a java library with lot of utilities and reusable components. This requires the library guava-10.0.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows using Resources.getResource() API. It returns the URL of given classpath resource if found otherwise throws IllegalArgumentException.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/guava/io_tests/ClassPathResourceTest.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.guava.io_tests;



import java.io.IOException;

import java.net.URL;



import com.google.common.io.Resources;



public class ClassPathResourceTest {



  /**

   * @param args

   * @throws IOException 

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    

    URL fileURL = Resources.getResource("abc.txt");

    System.out.println(fileURL);



    //Instead of using

    //ClassPathResourceTest.class.getClassLoader().getResource()

    URL clsURL = Resources.getResource(

        "com/bethecoder/tutorials/guava/io_tests/ClassPathResourceTest.class");

    System.out.println(clsURL);

  }



}

Classpath Resource