Get all Resources in a Java source folder

Question

The following code grants me access to a specific PNG resource within my project:

BufferedImage temp = ImageIO.read(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResource("play.png"));

However, I have n images that I don't have to have to hardcode ("play.png", "pause.png", etc); without having an external image library (which I would simply loop through with File ), is there a way to get all images within the project?

Ideally, all files within a specific source folder, really. Or source folders. getResources only seems to work for multiples of a specific named resource, which isn't what I want.

EDIT :

To be clear, this is a local project / application; it isn't intended to be a servlet or otherwise deployed on the Web. Question updated with the offline tag in case this is applicable.

Answer 1

You can do something like this.Here I am trying to get all the images in a folder named images in a servlet.

protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
     HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
     String pathToImages = getServletContext().getRealPath("/images");
     File[] files = new File(pathToImages).listFiles();
     showImages(files);
 }
 public static void showImages(File[] files) {
        for (File file : files) {
                System.out.println("File: " + file.getName());
            }
        }