Get File object from HDFS with Java

[iGama]

Hy all. I'm using Java.

I Have a function that receives a File ( it manipulates images ). in a 
local file system I would use :

File imageFile = new File(path);

But to run in hadoop, what would be the best way to acheve this?

At this point, what I have figured out , would something in the lines of :

Path imagePath = new Path("/user/guest" + separator + imageDir + 
separator + imageFile);
FSDataInputStream dis = hdfs.open(imagePath);

but, how to I get the object File ?

Any sugestions?

Thanks,

Marco