1 files changed, 7 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/icu4j/main/core/src/test/java/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/message2/TestUtils.java b/icu4j/main/core/src/test/java/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/message2/TestUtils.java
index ae8868d03..e0e4c67ea 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/core/src/test/java/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/message2/TestUtils.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/core/src/test/java/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/message2/TestUtils.java
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ package com.ibm.icu.dev.test.message2;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
 
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.Reader;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
@@ -129,15 +132,8 @@ public class TestUtils {
         return unit.toString();
     }
 
-    static Reader jsonReader(String jsonFileName) throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
-        Path json = getTestFile(TestUtils.class, jsonFileName);
-        return Files.newBufferedReader(json, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+    static Reader jsonReader(String jsonFileName) {
+        InputStream json = TestUtils.class.getResourceAsStream(jsonFileName);
+        return new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(json, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
     }
-
-    private static Path getTestFile(Class<?> cls, String fileName) throws URISyntaxException {
-        String packageName = cls.getPackage().getName().replace('.', '/');
-        URI getPath = cls.getClassLoader().getResource(packageName).toURI();
-        Path filePath = Paths.get(getPath);
-        Path json = Paths.get(fileName);
-        return filePath.resolve(json);
-    }}
+}