Question

suppose I put a file a.txt in package com.xyz and the try access it like following. Will it work?

Hi All,

          import com.xyz.*;
          public class Hello
          { 
            File f = new File("a.txt");
             ...
          }

It is not working for me. Is there any workaround?

Answer 1

Based on your responses to the comments above. If you are looking for a work around, just specify the path to the .txt file on the file system. Putting it in a package does not help.

new File ("a.txt")

looks for a file on the the file system and not within a package.

Please also read the javadocs on File:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html

However I do not see the rationale in putting the file inside a package unless you would want to use it as a resource. In which case @jcomeau_ictx has the right solution