public class GetAppPropertiesSpotApp extends MIDlet {
   protected void startApp() throws MIDletStateChangeException {
      String nameOfFile=this.getAppProperty("NameOfFile");
      System.out.println("NameOfFile=" + nameOfFile);
      InputStream is = getClass().getResourceAsStream(nameOfFile);
      InputStreamReader isr= new InputStreamReader(is);
      BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
      String line = null;
      while ((line=br.readLine())!=null) {
            System.out.println("line=" + line);
      }

   }

   protected void pauseApp() {}
   protected void destroyApp(boolean arg0) throws MIDletStateChangeException {}

}

Shows reading a file bundled with a Sun SPOT application.
The file, called winners.txt contains the following 2 lines:
Walker
Griffin
-----------------------------------------------------------
The output would include:
NameOfFile=/winners.txt
line=Walker
line=Griffin

Sun SPOT read bundled file as resource

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