The best way to access files from resource folder inside a jar is it to use the InputStream via getResourceAsStream. If you still need a the resource as a file instance you can copy the resource as a stream into a temporary file (the temp file will be deleted when the JVM exits):
public static File getResourceAsFile(String resourcePath) {
try {
InputStream in = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resourcePath);
if (in == null) {
return null;
}
File tempFile = File.createTempFile(String.valueOf(in.hashCode()), ".tmp");
tempFile.deleteOnExit();
try (FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(tempFile)) {
//copy stream
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int bytesRead;
while ((bytesRead = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
out.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
}
}
return tempFile;
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}