Applet Denied Access Reading xml file from own Jar File

[DoubleBarrel]

I found that applets cannot use the Java.IO.File class not even to read from their own assigned jar file - using the lwjgl applet loader and specifying the <param name="al_jar" value="resources.jar">  resources.jar containing the xml file. What method can I use to avoid the use of the file class?

I am concluding that the file class is giving problems from the console output:
access denied (java.io.FilePermission Resources\particleEffects\gloveCollision.xml read)
java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission Resources\particleEffects\gloveCollision.xml read)

Thank you again and again

[Riven]

How about:

1	InputStream in = Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("particleEffects/gloveCollision.xml");

[DoubleBarrel]

Thanks for your help , actually using ParticleIO.loadEmitter(string path to jar-ed resource folder) solved the problem.