read a file a jar

Question

Is it possible to read a file within a jar ?

My project structure look like this:

Root:

 ->src

 ->lib -<my.jar>

In the lib directory there is a jar(my.jar) that contain text file

This is the class path in the manifest file: Class-Path: ./lib/my.jar

and i am trying to load the text file like this:

 InputStream in = MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("/text.license");

Any idea how to read the file ?

Thanks

Answer 1

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/jar/JarFile.html

Your best bet would to use the JarFile class (handles zip compression)