Java Images via JAR

[JayF]

I've developed a simple application that I'd like to distribute to some friends. When I export to a JAR, it no longer supports the images. This is the code I'm using to display the images:

bgImage = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("/images/bg.png"),""));

bg.png is locate at .../src/images/bg.png

[doWhile]

How are you doing the 'export to a JAR'?

[JayF]

"Package required libraries into generated JAR"

[doWhile]

"Package required libraries into generated JAR"

That makes no sense...are you using command line? IDE (which one and how are you exporting)? Ant?

[JayF]

That makes no sense...are you using command line? IDE (which one and how are you exporting)? Ant?

File-> Export -> Runnable JAR -> Library Handling (Package required libraries into generated JAR)

I'm using Eclipse

[doWhile]

That did not answer my question at all, and I do not like guessing

[JayF]

That did not answer my question at all, and I do not like guessing

Eclipse IDE, Indigo

[doWhile]

The IDE should export the images into the jar. Break the problem down into basic troubleshooting parts....unjar and make sure they are there. If they are not, you know its the IDE. If they are, your lookup path is most likely incorrect.

[JayF]

The IDE should export the images into the jar. Break the problem down into basic troubleshooting parts....unjar and make sure they are there. If they are not, you know its the IDE. If they are, your lookup path is most likely incorrect.

I've opened the JAR and the images are inside. How would I determine the correct path?

[doWhile]

Again, break the problem down...now you know the images are there, its not the jar export that is the problem. So...how do you define "it no longer supports the images"? Is there an exception thrown? If so, what is it? Are the images in the correct location within the jar? Does this location correspond to the path you define when you get the resource? Debugging this like this should be like a decision tree - ask a question then decide which branch to take based upon the answer to that question.

[JayF]

An exception is thrown because the path given to the ImageIcon is invalid. The question I'm asking you is how I correctly determine that path. getClass().getResource() simply gives me "rsrc:" which I don't understand.

[doWhile]

What is the stack trace? If you pass /images/bg.png to the getResource(), then that should be the location within your jar. Do they coincide when you unpackage your jar?

[JayF]

I can't see the stack trace because the exception is being thrown in the JAR only, not in the IDE. The image path is JAR/images/bg.png

[doWhile]

I can't see the stack trace because the exception is being thrown in the JAR only, not in the IDE. The image path is JAR/images/bg.png

Run the jar from the command line (java -jar myjar.jar) ...it will print out the stack trace. If the path/files name of the image within the jar is identical to what you pass to getResource(), then the image should be found. My guess is that they are not, but the stack trace would confirm either way.

[JayF]

Okay, here's the stack trace.

Jays-Mac:~ Jay$ java board.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: board/jar
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: board.jar
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java: 202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.j ava:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:3 06)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launche r.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:2 47)

[doWhile]

That is not the correct stack trace...run as I described above - with the -jar command line argument.

[JayF]

That is not the correct stack trace...run as I described above - with the -jar command line argument.

Jays-Mac:~ Jay$ java -jar Board.jar
Unable to access jarfile Board.jar

[doWhile]

board.jar != Board.jar Post 15 uses board.jar, post 17 uses Board.jar

[JayF]

The jar's name is Board.jar

Jays-Mac:~ Jay$ java -jar desktop/Board.jar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Nativ e Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Native MethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(De legatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.jarinjarloader.JarRsrcLoa der.main(JarRsrcLoader.java:58)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(ImageIcon.java:181)
at code.Team.<init>(Team.java:16)
at teamSelectorCode.teamSelectionWindow.addIcons(team SelectionWindow.java:66)
at teamSelectorCode.teamSelectionWindow.<init>(teamSe lectionWindow.java:54)
at code.Driver.main(Driver.java:6)
... 5 more

[doWhile]

And...look at the stack trace. It tells you exactly where the exception is being thrown. What is line 16 of Team.java? Is it the same line as your first post?