Access images from resources directory in Maven Facelets project

Question

Firstly, please forgive me if I have asked this before (i suffer memory problems due to a brain tumor.)

I am trying to roll a Managed Bean to fetch images from a directory, but don't know how to get the url for iether of the following locations:

1)Maven 'resources' dir & 2)webapp/images dir (from withing my Managed bean.

Additionally is it still fine to use h:datatTable to display data as I understand Tables to be somewhat outdated no?

I have written a large portion of the desired bean and am just seeking info on how (if possible) to find the urls or set the url as a managed property.

package com.buhaugane.util;

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import org.apache.commons.collections.ArrayStack;

import javax.faces.bean.ManagedBean;
import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Contain utility methods to interact with images.
 */
@ManagedBean(name = "images")
public class ImageBean {
    List<File> images;

    static String thumbUrl;
    static String fullSizeURL;

    /**
     * Returns all thumbnails at specified url
     */
    public static List<File> thumbnails (){
        thumbUrl=//can I get it from context if I can't set url as a manages property?


        File[] files = new File(thumbUrl).listFiles();
        List<File> returnList = Arrays.asList(files);
        return returnList;
    }

    /**
     * Returns all full-sized images at specified url
     */
    public static List<File> fullSized (){
        thumbUrl=**//can I get it from context if I can't set url as a manages property?**


        File[] files = new File(thumbUrl).listFiles();
        List<File> returnList = Arrays.asList(files);
        return returnList;
    }
}

Many thanks, Yucca