Opening a file

[Jonathan]

Hello All. If I want to read in a file from a class which is NOT A SERVLET, such as Action, how do I refer to it.  Let me clarify this.  If it was a servlet I could have got the context, and from there a relative path.  BUT, from within a class there IS NO CONTEXT.  For example, I am running weblogic.  When I search for a file without specifying the path it searches from the "weblogic" directory, the place where I ran the startup script.  I only know this to be true because after 1000 painfull attempts it finally loaded my xml file from that directory when I placed it there.  How do you refer to a file from within a non servlet class?  Here is my code to refer to the file I want to open:   File mappingfile = new File("character_mappings.xml");