How to read file on Windows and Linux from Java

Question

I have a xml file located in D:\\XML\\RequestXML and I am reading xml file in this folder from a FileReader. In my program I hard coded the file pa

Answer 1

If you know the current working directory (test it with:

System.out.println(new File(".").getAbsolutePath());

you can hardcode a relative directory like ../../XML/RequestXML

For the record: although this may help, I still believe you should try to solve this with a configuration parameter or by loading it as a resource available in the classpath.