Unix file path not working to retrieve file

Question

I have an application I developed on a Windows machine to generate some XML and then later read it. Well when I generate on my Windows machine it works fine, and then I can read it with no problem. When I generate on the Unix machine, It works fine, but I can not read the file at all. The path is correct, the file is there, Java just can't read it for some reason, I get a FileNotFoundException. It gets the path from a properties file, then adds the filename to the path and tries to retrieve it. The path looks like this /pages/content/net/tool/Custom.xml and when I vi the file vi can read it fine. So anyone run across this before, not being able to read the file at all? To generate I use betwixt and to read I use digester.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I am going to give you the output here, and all of the configuration info as well and the checkSlash method too. But I suspect what is happening is some kind of stream/os control is holding on to the file and not letting someone take a look at it in the application level. If it's not that then it's a permission issue, which I chmod'ed the file and made rw-rw-r-- (it was rw-r--r--)just like the files that already work. Also I winSCP'ed into the box and tried a simple overwrite with another file of the same name and got a permision denied.
my application level exception :
com.spectra.common.CommonException:
/pages/content/net/tool/OpFinderCategoryReview.xml 
(No such file or directory)
the real exception thrown by the application:
Caused by: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
/pages/content/net/tool/OpFinderCategoryReview.xml 
(No such file or directory)
/*this method checks the file name passed in and see if it leads
with a slash to cap on the end of the path from the properties file
which is /pages/content/net/tool/ */
private String checkSlash(String fileName) {
   if(fileName != null && !fileName.startsWith("/"))
     return "/"+fileName ;
   return fileName ;
/*I use betwixt to write out the XML for me and then I try and use it but it fails . this is the way I call betwixt */
try {
              WizardProduct wizProduct = (WizardProduct)request.getSession().getAttribute(PricingResources.WIZARD) ;
              String fileName = CommonUtil.checkSlash(this.createFileName(wizProduct)) ;
              int pageId = this.createPage(wizProduct,fileName) ;
              GenerateProduct genProduct = new GenerateProduct() ;
               Product product = genProduct.doExecute(wizProduct, pageId) ;
               PropertiesReader reader =  new PropertiesReader() ;
               String path = reader.getRepositoryProps().getProperty(PricingResources.REPOSITORY_DIR) ;
               FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(new File(path + fileName));
               BeanWriter writer = new BeanWriter(fileWriter);
               writer.getBindingConfiguration().setMapIDs(false) ;
               writer.enablePrettyPrint();
               XMLIntrospector introspector = writer.getXMLIntrospector( );
             introspector.getConfiguration().setWrapCollectionsInElement(false);
               writer.write("product", product);
               writer.flush();
               writer.close() ;
               fileWriter.close() ;
/* The read file process works fine in every scenario EXCEPT when I generate a document from my application and then try to read it. The problem is not in reading it normally, it's reading it only on a Linux machine after I generate a doc, not on windows.
Thanks