[Java] Locate resource on classpath

Sometimes you might need to access a resource from your classpath and you might be tempted to use Spring's ClassPathResource which obviously requires you to have Spring available.

An alternative is the getResource method from the Java classloader:

 File myResource;  
   
 try{  
  final URL resource = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("MY_RESOURCE");  
   
  if(resource != null){  
   myResource = new File(resource.toURI());  
  }  
 } catch(URISyntaxException e){  
  //something went wrong  
 }