Reading resource files in a Spark application

[Arun Lists]

In some classes, I initialize some values from resource files using the
following snippet:

new File(cls.getResource(fileName).toURI)

This works fine in SBT. When I run it using spark-submit, I get a
bunch of errors because the classes cannot be initialized. What can I
do to make such initialization that is Spark friendly?

Thanks,
arun