Problems Accessing Local Files

Hi,
I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I'm havign problems accessing a file on the target machine's local filesystem. I've signed all my jars and added the all-permissions tag to the jnlp file. However, my code:
ClassLoader cl = getClass().getClassLoader();
InputStream is = cl.getResourceAsStream("c:/resources/testsuite.xml");
fails to find the file "testsuite.xml".
Is this a classpath issue? I've tried to add c:/resources to the class path but with no luck.
any help would be much appreciated
Thanks

Try "file://c:/resources/testsuite.xml" instead. I
believe you are suppose to be passing in a valid URL
and what you passed in wasn't.That's wrong. Resource name should be just a path. It could be a full path started from "/" or just a relative path from given class (here better to use this.class.getResourceAsStream() method).
Better yet, since you are giving full security access
to the user's local machine you don't really need to
rely on the class loader at all. It's just a normal
file, so you could create your File object and read it
in the way you do normally. I would suggest to do not rely on File object at all because it can only be dealing with local file system and thats can't be changed in future.

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