“Then the people of Judah began to complain, ‘The workers are getting tired, and there is so much rubble to be moved. We will never be able to build the wall by ourselves.’” Nehemiah 4:10 (NLT) Every ...

Indeed for NetBeans this codepath should not be hit. If permissions were somehow messed with though, the file might indeed be unreadable and thus explain why the "load from classpath" route is taken.