Java audiostream platform independent

Question

I have the following method to play audio clips:

public static synchronized void playSound(final String path) {
      new Thread(new Runnable() {
      // The wrapper thread is unnecessary, unless it blocks on the
      // Clip finishing; see comments.
        public void run() {
            try {
                Clip clip = AudioSystem.getClip();
                AudioInputStream inputStream = AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(
                        this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(path));
                clip.open(inputStream);
                clip.loop(Clip.LOOP_CONTINUOUSLY);
                while (runThread) {
                    Thread.sleep(5000);
                }
                clip.stop();
            }
            catch (Exception e) {
                System.err.println("Audio clip error: "+e.getMessage());
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        } 
      }).start();
    }

When I run this on a Windows 7 desktop platform (Lenovo), it works as expected. However, when run on a windows 7 laptop (Acer), I get the following exception:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.media.sound.SoftMidiAudioFileReader.getAudioInputStream(Unknown Source)
at javax.sound.sampled.AudioSystem.getAudioInputStream(Unknown Source)
at StokerMonitor.Alerts$1.run(Alerts.java:62)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Line 62 is the 'AudioInputStream' statement. I don't know what the difference is between the 2 platforms but I am guessing there must be some Windows 7 dependency that is missing on the laptop. Does anyone have any suggestions? TIA.

Answer 1

It turns out that somehow the resources directory was removed from the build path in Eclipse. Sorry for the bother.