File not found IO

Hi,

I have an issue trying to read a file. Iam getting a file not found ex, but the file seems to be there.

This is my project

This the code that is loading the file.

Java Code:

 public GATEApplication(String appPath) {
                try {
                        loadGATEApplication(appPath);
                        corpus = Factory.newCorpus("mainCorpus");
                        application.setCorpus(corpus);  
                } catch (GateException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }

        /**
         * Loads the .gapp file to GATE
         * 
         * @param path the .gapp file path
         */
        private void loadGATEApplication(String path) {
                try {
                        Gate.init();    // must run first before any GATE API calls can be made.
                        ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
                        File file = new File(classLoader.getResource(path).getFile());
                        System.out.println(file.getPath());  // the path is correct
                        application = (CorpusController) PersistenceManager
                                        .loadObjectFromFile(file);      // exception thrown here
                } catch (GateException | IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }

I test the constructor like this:

Java Code:

 public static void main(String[] args) {
                GATEApplication g = new GATEApplication("GATE applications/film_paum.gapp");
                //File file = new File("ML_Model/GATE applications");
                //for(String fileNames : file.list()) System.out.println(fileNames);

the stack trace

Java Code:

 java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Users\Overlord\workspace\Sentiment%20Analysis%20ML%20App\bin\GATE%20applications\film_paum.gapp (The system cannot find the path specified)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open0(Native Method)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.http://ift.tt/QSp0th(Unknown Source)
        at sun.net.http://ift.tt/1iey6X5(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.URL.openStream(Unknown Source)
        at gate.util.persistence.PersistenceManager.isXmlApplicationFile(PersistenceManager.java:1013)
        at gate.util.persistence.PersistenceManager.loadObjectFromUrl(PersistenceManager.java:857)
        at gate.util.persistence.PersistenceManager.loadObjectFromFile(PersistenceManager.java:831)
        at gate_resources.GATEApplication.loadGATEApplication(GATEApplication.java:87)
        at gate_resources.GATEApplication.<init>(GATEApplication.java:67)
        at gate_resources.Test.main(Test.java:8)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at gate_resources.GATEApplication.<init>(GATEApplication.java:69)
        at gate_resources.Test.main(Test.java:8)

but the path on the exception is correct and the file is there. I don't see why this is happening.