FileSystems

File Systems are a device for orginizing Files in Directorys or Folders.

java.io.File permits access to any file accessible from your computer using the regular filesystem interface. Sometimes you may want to access files in other ways.

• Apache Commons IO - Utilities for working with IO (input/output) including files and filing systems
• Apache Commons Net - Library of networking protocol implementations, including FTP
• Apache Commons VFS - A single API view over multiple filing systems
• JakartaSlide^? (http://jakarta.apache.org/slide/) provides a WebDAV client in Java
• the NetBeans filesystem abstraction layer: http://openide.netbeans.org/fs/
• WebNfs^?: http://wwws.sun.com/software/webnfs/
• FAM: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ (is there a Java binding?)
• Jsr203: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=203
• ClassLoader#getResource^?(String name) (to read ressources from classpath, including own JAR)
• file:// URL Connection (within J2EE App Servers)

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