[md-dev] stuck on resources...

[Dave Wilson]

Ok..been beating on this for near a week.  I thought the  
getResourceAsStream would do the trick, but no luck.  The short of it  
is this, I want to use a JEditorPane to show a simple .html file that  
I want to use for some basica about/documentation information in this  
plugin I'm developing.  For the life of me I can't get any method to  
read the file and return anything but null/throw an IO exception.

The file in question is on the same level as all the other class  
files in the .mxt file.  There is no problem with changing the plugin  
logo in the Main class using the method there, but if I try to even  
load the .html file at that point, I still don't have any luck.

I'm sure all this is due to my lack of understanding regarding  
classloaders and resource paths and all this, but as an exercise I  
don't have any problems when trying to do this kind of thing in a  
standalone java program.

So to any and all, help please!  Any guidlines, gotchas, etc I should  
be looking for?

Thanks,
Dave