Reading a file from the same directory as a Java class at Thursday, March 20, 2008

String filename = 
  getClass().getPackage().getName().replace('.', '/');

BufferedReader br =
  new BufferedReader(
    new InputStreamReader(
      getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(filename)));

while ((str = br.readLine()) != null) {
  ...
}

in.close();  // put this in a finally block