Hey Jim: "jcstaff2" wrote : If obtaining the current classloader is illegal/non-portable, how does one read in a data file from the EJB's classpath? Is there a legal classloader we can access that will have the file Resource that can be read in as a stream? In general, use of File (and other I/O) resources is frowned upon in EJB because again you've got the issue of application code directly accessing something by bypassing the abstraction provided by the container. This means that nothing is guarding it from concurrent access, providing rollback capabilities, etc. For *non-mutable* resources, like reading in properties, you can package these inside your EJB JAR and get at them via this.getClass().getResource() in your bean implementation class. S, ALR View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4246306#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...