Java Utililty Methods InputStream Create

InputStream is = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path);
if (null == is) {
    throw new FileNotFoundException(path + " cannot be opened because it does not exist");
return is;

try {
    return new FileInputStream(path);
} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
return null;

return new FileInputStream(path);

try {
    InputStream is = new FileInputStream(new File(sPath));
    return is;
} catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
    return null;

byte[] b = str.getBytes();
ByteArrayInputStream iStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(b);
return iStream;

InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(text.getBytes("utf-8"));
return inputStream;

try {
    return new FileInputStream(thePath);
} catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
    System.err.println("### ERROR @ Util.getInputStream / couldn t create inputstream " + ex);
    return null;

InputStream is = null;
if (url != null) {
    if (url.indexOf(File.separator) != -1) {
        byte[] infoArray = readFile(url);
        if (infoArray != null) {
            is = new ByteArrayInputStream(infoArray);
    } else {
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return new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlStr.getBytes());

String path = join(File.separator, subpaths);
File file = new File(path);
return new FileInputStream(file);