public class GetAppPropertiesSpotApp extends MIDlet { 

    protected void startApp() throws MIDletStateChangeException {

        String nameOfFile=this.getAppProperty("NameOfFile");
        System.out.println("NameOfFile=" + nameOfFile);

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

Shows how to access properties in the resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF file.
Presumably this file would have an entry like the following:
NameOfFile: winners.txt
The following code accesses this property at runtime from within the MIDlet and prints it to the console.

Sun SPOT getting properties from MANIFEST.MF

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