Here you can find the source of findResource(Class> clazz)
public static URL findResource(Class<?> clazz)
//package com.java2s; /*//from w w w . j ava 2s .c o m GRANITE DATA SERVICES Copyright (C) 2011 GRANITE DATA SERVICES S.A.S. This file is part of Granite Data Services. Granite Data Services is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Granite Data Services is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.lang.reflect.Type; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; public class Main { public static URL findResource(Class<?> clazz) { if (clazz.isArray()) clazz = clazz.getComponentType(); if (clazz.isPrimitive()) return null; URL url = getClassLoader(clazz).getResource(toResourceName(clazz)); String path = url.toString(); if (path.indexOf(' ') != -1) { try { url = new URL(path.replace(" ", "%20")); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { // should never happen... } } return url; } public static boolean isPrimitive(Type type) { return type instanceof Class<?> && ((Class<?>) type).isPrimitive(); } public static ClassLoader getClassLoader(Class<?> clazz) { return (clazz.getClassLoader() != null ? clazz.getClassLoader() : ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader()); } public static String toResourceName(Class<?> clazz) { return clazz.getName().replace('.', '/').concat(".class"); } }