Main class cannot find .dat file

I am doing a simple exercise where a program reads data from a .dat file and prints it out on the console.

I am working with NetBeans. I saved the .dat file in the default package folder where the main file is located. And it cannot find the .dat file.

Here are the codes:

import java.nio.*;
import java.nio.channels.*;
import java.nio.charset.*;
import java.io.*;

public class BufferConverter {
    public static void main(String[] arguments) {
        try {
            // read byte data into a byte buffer
            String data = "friends.dat";
            FileInputStream inData = new FileInputStream(data);
            FileChannel inChannel = inData.getChannel();
            long inSize = inChannel.size();
            ByteBuffer source = ByteBuffer.allocate( (int) inSize );
            inChannel.read(source, 0);
            source.position(0);
            System.out.println("Original byte data:");
            for (int i = 0; source.remaining() > 0; i++) {
                System.out.print(source.get() + " ");
            }
            // convert byte data into character data
            source.position(0);
            Charset ascii = Charset.forName("US-ASCII");
            CharsetDecoder toAscii = ascii.newDecoder();
            CharBuffer destination = toAscii.decode(source);
            destination.position(0);
            System.out.println("\n\nNew character data:");
            for (int i = 0; destination.remaining() > 0; i++) {
                System.out.print(destination.get());
            }
            System.out.println();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException fne) {
            System.out.println(fne.getMessage());
        } catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println(ioe.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

Should I write a specific path? How can I make the program find the .dat file?

Any help is much appreciated Sylvain