@Nik I tried the approach you suggested of copying resources out of the jar into a folder so that they can be accessed outside of the jar. This works when the app is in the build folder, but when it’s in the

/Applications

folder, it has an issue when trying to copy to the

My <http://App.app/Contents/resources|App.app/Contents/resources>

dir.

java.nio.file.FileSystemException: /resources: Read-only file system

Does anyone have a recommendation of where I should be saving these resource files?

One could use

$HOME/Library/MyApp

or unpack file per request in

/tmp

. We’ll try to fix it in plugin. cc: @alexey.tsvetkov

Fix what exactly? I agree that we probably need a mechanism for packing resources outside of a jar.

yep, I meant fix for adding arbitrary files into an application image, i.e. under Resources folder

I'm also interested in swapping out jar files to auto update an app. I had done research that indicated that an application on Mac had permission to modify its own app contents with signed files. Is that not actually the case?