Images and text file doesnt show in the exported runnable jar file

Question

I am working in Java Swing application. I am referring image in my program and it work fine when I run it in Eclipse but when I run it after exporting it doesnt show those files.

My directory hierarchy:

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While exporting the jar I have selected Library handling: Package required libraries into generated jar.

after converting jar to zip, the zip file contains all the resources folders in it. and also classpath file contains resources folder included.

I have referred many answers here but nothing helped me. Reffered Questions :

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Answer 1

Try new ImageIcon("/res/images/icon.png") or new ImageIcon("/res/images/icon.png") depending on where you can find the image in the jar file. Because I think without the starting "/" it will try to find it outside the JAR file.

If this is not working then you can try loading the file with [yourclassname].class.getClass().getResourceAsStream(...)