Yet another image loading problem thread

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Please help me ;D

Here’s the code in question:


public BufferedImage loadImage(String name)  
    {
        URL url = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(name);       
        try  
        {
              return ImageIO.read(url);
        }     
        catch (Exception e) 
        {
              System.out.println("Cannot load image " + name +" from "+url);
              System.out.println("The error was : "+e.getClass().getName()+" "+e.getMessage());
              System.exit(0);
              return null;
        }
}
public void draw(Graphics2D g)
{
        BufferedImage bi = loadImage("hero.bmp");
        g.drawImage(bi,x,y,null);     
}

When I run it… the getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(name); method returns null, eventhogh hero.bmp is in the same folder. How do I fix that?

EDIT: Nevermind, I fixed it by changing

loadImage("hero.bmp");

to

loadImage("<packagename>/hero.bmp");