Apache NetBeansWhat is a FileObject?
FileObjects are virtual files which live inside a FileSystem . They may represent a file on disk - or anything else walks and talks like a file, or can be made to - such as a file on a remote FTP server, a file entry in a JAR file, an entry in an XML file, etc.
FileObjects differ from java.io.File in certain ways:
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You don’t generally ever have a FileObject representing a file that doesn’t really exist (if you think a FileObject may have been deleted, check
isValid()) -
You can listen for changes on FileObjects
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FileObjectscan have key-value pairs of ad-hoc attributes associated with them
They are part of the Filesystems API; the javadoc for FileObject can be found here.
