title: In javafx loading FXML file from another package and error appear?
body: <p>I am facing problem in loading fxml file from different packge.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Project Structure</strong><br>
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  <p>My class that loads the FXML file PlayArea.java looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package controller;
  
  import javafx.application.Application;
  import javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader;
  import javafx.scene.Parent;
  import javafx.scene.Scene;
  import javafx.stage.Stage;
  
  /**
   *
   * @author badar
   */
  public class PlayArea extends Application {
  
      @Override
      public void start(Stage stage) throws Exception {
          Parent root = FXMLLoader.load(getClass().getResource("/gui/FXMLDocument.fxml"));
  
          Scene scene = new Scene(root);
  
          stage.setScene(scene);
          stage.show();
      }
  
      /**
       * @param args the command line arguments
       */
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          launch(args);
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My fxml file that is FXMLDocument.fxml</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  
  &lt;?import com.jfoenix.controls.JFXDrawer?&gt;
  &lt;?import com.jfoenix.controls.JFXHamburger?&gt;
  &lt;?import javafx.scene.layout.BorderPane?&gt;
  &lt;?import javafx.scene.layout.HBox?&gt;
  
  &lt;BorderPane fx:id="boderpane" minHeight="600.0" minWidth="600.0" prefHeight="600.0" prefWidth="600.0"  xmlns="http://javafx.com/javafx/8.0.65" xmlns:fx="http://javafx.com/fxml/1" fx:controller="controller.FXMLDocumentController"&gt;
     &lt;left&gt;
        &lt;JFXDrawer fx:id="drawer" defaultDrawerSize="200.0" prefHeight="503.0" prefWidth="200.0" BorderPane.alignment="CENTER" /&gt;
     &lt;/left&gt;
     &lt;top&gt;
        &lt;HBox nodeOrientation="LEFT_TO_RIGHT" style="-fx-background-color: #42A5F5;" BorderPane.alignment="CENTER"&gt;
           &lt;children&gt;
              &lt;JFXHamburger fx:id="hamburger" prefHeight="100.0" prefWidth="100.0" /&gt;
           &lt;/children&gt;
        &lt;/HBox&gt;
     &lt;/top&gt;
  &lt;/BorderPane&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong></p>
  
  <p><em>Error Message:</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>Exception in Application start method
  java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplicationWithArgs(LauncherImpl.java:389)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication(LauncherImpl.java:328)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
      at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper$FXHelper.main(LauncherHelper.java:767)
  Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Exception in Application start method
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.launchApplication1(LauncherImpl.java:917)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication$155(LauncherImpl.java:182)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
  Caused by: javafx.fxml.LoadException: 
  /home/badar/Documents/GitHub/DSA%20Lab%20Tasks/Playe%20Area/bin/gui/FXMLDocument.fxml
  
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.constructLoadException(FXMLLoader.java:2601)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:2579)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:2441)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3214)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3175)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3148)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3124)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3104)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.load(FXMLLoader.java:3097)
      at controller.PlayArea.start(PlayArea.java:22)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.LauncherImpl.lambda$launchApplication1$162(LauncherImpl.java:863)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runAndWait$175(PlatformImpl.java:326)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$null$173(PlatformImpl.java:295)
      at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
      at com.sun.javafx.application.PlatformImpl.lambda$runLater$174(PlatformImpl.java:294)
      at com.sun.glass.ui.InvokeLaterDispatcher$Future.run(InvokeLaterDispatcher.java:95)
      at com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication._runLoop(Native Method)
      at com.sun.glass.ui.gtk.GtkApplication.lambda$null$49(GtkApplication.java:139)
      ... 1 more
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Location is required.
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3207)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3175)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3148)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3124)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:3104)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.load(FXMLLoader.java:3097)
      at controller.FXMLDocumentController.initialize(FXMLDocumentController.java:65)
      at javafx.fxml.FXMLLoader.loadImpl(FXMLLoader.java:2548)
      ... 17 more
  Exception running application controller.PlayArea
  </code></pre>