FileNotFoundException in runnable jar

Question

I have an application that works perfectly in the eclipse launcher but not in the executable jar, I have copied the src into the jar and the .properties but I get this error:

Error in ConfigXML.java: problems with src/main/resources/config.xml
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\victo\Desktop\IS1\config.xml (The system can not find the path specified)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open0(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLEntityManager.setupCurrentEntity(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLVersionDetector.determineDocVersion(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
        at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)
        at configuration.ConfigXML.<init>(ConfigXML.java:84)
        at configuration.ConfigXML.<clinit>(ConfigXML.java:76)
        at gui.ApplicationLauncher.main(ApplicationLauncher.java:20)
null
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.Locale.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.util.Locale.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at gui.ApplicationLauncher.main(ApplicationLauncher.java:24)

These are that lines of the ApplicationLauncher.java:

public class ApplicationLauncher 
{ 
    
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {

        ConfigXML c=ConfigXML.getInstance();
    
        System.out.println(c.getLocale());
        
        Locale.setDefault(new Locale(c.getLocale()));
        
        System.out.println("Locale: "+Locale.getDefault());

And the ConfigXML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
  <businessLogic local="true"> 
    <businessLogicNode>0.0.0.0</businessLogicNode>
    <businessLogicPort>1099</businessLogicPort>
    <businessLogicName>Bets</businessLogicName>
  </businessLogic>
  <database local="true">
    <databaseNode>0.0.0.0</databaseNode>
    <dbFilename>src/main/resources/bets.temp</dbFilename>
    <dataBaseOpenMode>open</dataBaseOpenMode>
    <databasePort>6136</databasePort>
    <user>admin</user>
    <password>admin</password>
  </database>
  <locale>en</locale>
</config>

The config.xml is in the resources folder of the jar so I don't know what this happens, thanks.

Answer 1

The solution is to paste the src folder next to the jar file, I have pasted it inside the jar file too using WinRar. It is because there is a line in the config xml that points to src/resources as the path of the needed resources