Resource conflict with other libraries

[liorregev]

I believe you should avoid having resources in the root of the 'resources' directory since it is not specific to you library and a class-loader could fetch the wrong one if multiple libraries do this.

For example: your 'version.properties' resource conflict with the one in https://github.com/ethereum/ethereumj and therefore causes NullPointerException
I have opened a similar issue on that repo, but I think it should be fixed in both

[iikirilov]

Thanks for bringing up this issue. It was resolved in ethereumj with this commit.
@conor10 any other thoughts on this?

[fcorneli]

Maybe rename "version.properties" to "web3j-version.properties" to prevent conflicts with yet other libraries too?