如何构造Java项目？

Question

After two year of learning, I realize that my school didn't teach us any project structuring ...

I want to make games for a living, so I tried to start a little project on my own for self-learning. But I'm stuck on a little problem : I can't find the relative Path to my background's .gif file for my test-project.

Here 's how I've structured my project so far :

Is that a "proper" way to structure a project ? Even If this one is a small one, once I'll start a "real" big project, should I re-structure like that ?

For my path problem, here's some of the thing I've tried (I work with javaFx) :

Image bg = new Image("../assets/sprite/Backgrounds/farback.gif");
Image bg = new Image("/assets/sprite/Backgrounds/farback.gif");
Image bg = new Image("assets/sprite/Backgrounds/farback.gif");
Image bg = new Image("farback.gif");
Image bg = new Image("..\\assets\\sprite\\Backgrounds\\farback.gif");
Image bg = new Image("assets\\sprite\\Backgrounds\\farback.gif");
...

And so on, but none of them have work.
Also this is the first time I use a recursive URL on windows, so the problem may come from here ... I've look that up on google but didn't find anything useful ...

Answer 1

I believe Maven has become a standard for most open source projects. I'd recommend that you follow their directory structure and naming standards.

The other standard you need to be aware of is web app packaging in WARs. You'll see a /web folder with that represents the root of your WAR context, with a /WEB-INF child. You usually put your web asserts at the root of the WAR context.

The Maven convention will have you put your web stuff under /main/resources/static. When you have it build your WAR file it'll put them in the right spot.

Another great recommendation would be Spring Boot . It might be a little advanced for you, but they also have good recommendations about how to structure applications.

Answer 2

Take a look at the following link, the author goes into more detail on structuring: Java project structural best practices

 basic-maven-project/ 
 |-- pom.xml
 |-- src
 |   |-- main
 |   |   |-- java
 |   |   |-- resources
 |   |       `-- webapp

 |   |       `-- WEB-INF
 |        `-- test

 |       |-- java

 |       `-- resources
        `-- target
 |-- classes
       `-- test-classes

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