[news.eclipse.pde] how to access a file in Plugin at runtime

[zhuj@xxxxxxxxx (Jinhui)]

Hi everyone, 

I have a question about "how to resolve a relative path for a file in the 
plugin".

the situation looks like the following:
I have a ontology file ont.owl in my Plugin P1. Now in some class of P1, 
in order to access ont.owl, I used absolute paths. But this Path is 
different on others' machine. And absolute path became problematic.


So my question: How can I access this ont.owl inside P1, using a relative 
path, so that later, when the plugin gets exported, no 
"FileNotFoundException" would be thrown.

any idea how to achieve this?

best regards!
Jinhui