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<h1>Introduction</h1>
<h2>What do the Dates Mean?</h2>
<p>
The supplied dates indicate when the API change was made, on the CVS
trunk. From this you can generally tell whether the change should be
present in a given build or not; for trunk builds, simply whether it
was made before or after the change; for builds on a stabilization
branch, whether the branch was made before or after the given date. In
some cases corresponding API changes have been made both in the trunk
and in an in-progress stabilization branch, if they were needed for a
bug fix; this ought to be marked in this list.
</p>
<ul>
<li>The <code>release41</code> branch was made on Apr 03 '05 for use in the NetBeans 4.1 release.
Specification versions: 6.0 begins after this point.</li>
<li>The <code>release40</code> branch was made on Nov 01 '04 for use in the NetBeans 4.0 release.
Specification versions: 5.0 begins after this point.</li>
</ul>
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<h1>
<a name="list-all-apis">Index of APIs</a>
</h1>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="#filesystems">Filesystems API</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="#uncategorized-api">Uncategorized changes</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>
<a name="incompat-by-date">Incompatible changes by date</a>
</h1>
<p>Fuller descriptions of all changes can be found below (follow links).</p>
<p>Not all deprecations are listed here, assuming that the deprecated
APIs continue to essentially work. For a full deprecation list, please
consult the
<a href="deprecated-list.html">Javadoc</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>(Oct 3 '14) <a href="#FileSystemStatus.icons2">FileSystem.Status API removed</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 11 '14) <a href="#FileSystemStatus.icons">FileSystem.Status icon annotation moved</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 10 '08) <a href="#testable-declarative-resolvers">Declarative MIME resolvers now available in standalone mode</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 25 '05) <a href="#semantic-change-in-FileUtil.toFileObject">
The way how <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> is thrown from
<code>FileUtil.toFileObject</code> was changed
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 21 '05) <a href="#no-static-file-ext-mappings">Removed most static MIME type mappings</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '04) <a href="#Repository-deprecations">Almost all methods of Repository were deprecated.</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileObject.setImportant">
<code>FileObject.setImportant</code> deprecated</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#filesystems-deprecations">Deprecation of various Filesystems API methods and classes</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileObject.getPath-III">
<code>FileObject.toString()</code> not to be used for specific purposes</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 30 '02) <a href="#getPath">
<code>FileObject.getPath()</code> returns full resource path of file object</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 6 '02) <a href="#version-2.22">URL -&gt; FileObject mapping implementation</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 24 '01) <a href="#version-1.33">FileAttributeEvent's methods getName (), getOldValue (), getNewValue () can return null</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 24 '01) <a href="#3.803008330124762E30">
Mounting new filesystem no longer works with filesystems providing
<code>WizardDescriptor</code> as bean customizers
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '01) <a href="#not-a-cookie">
<code>Repository</code> is not a cookie</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 27 '00) <a href="#1.22460676003798656E17">Filesystem implementation methods protected not public</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>
<a name="all-by-date">All changes by date</a>
</h1>
<ul>
<li>(May 28 '15) <a href="#ArchiveRootProvider">Pluggable archive files support for FileUtil</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 25 '15) <a href="#repository.multiuser">Support for multi-user environments</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 27 '14) <a href="#FileObject.symbolicLinks">Support detection and reading of symbolic links.</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 10 '14) <a href="#FileLock.closeable">FileLock implements AutoCloseable</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 3 '14) <a href="#FileSystemStatus.icons2">FileSystem.Status API removed</a>
</li>
<li>(May 14 '14) <a href="#getActionsDeprecated">Deprecating FileSystem.getActions</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 11 '14) <a href="#FileSystemStatus.icons">FileSystem.Status icon annotation moved</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 23 '12) <a href="#MultiFileObject.revealEntriesAttribute">Allowed to reveal deleted files, or original files overriden by writable layer</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 30 '12) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder-setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed">New method FileChooserBuilder.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed.</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 29 '12) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder-addDefaultFileFilters">New method FileChooserBuilder.addDefaultFileFilters and accompanying annotations.</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 22 '12) <a href="#fileobject-lookup">FileObject has getLookup()</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 11 '12) <a href="#recursive-listener-with-filter">addRecursiveListener with a filter</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 20 '12) <a href="#FileSystem.createTemporaryFO">File System can create temporary file</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 3 '12) <a href="#LayersProvider">SPI for Additions to System File System</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 2 '12) <a href="#MIMEResolver.Registrations">Annotations to declare MIME type</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 20 '12) <a href="#FileObject.toURI">Introduced <code>FileObject.toURI</code></a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 13 '12) <a href="#default-line-separator">Provides default line separator</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 29 '11) <a href="#FileObject.revert">Introduced <code>FileObject.revert</code></a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 22 '11) <a href="#FileEvent.4.constructor">Detailed FileEvent constructor</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 5 '11) <a href="#FileObject.getMIMEType...">FileObject.getMIMEType(String... withinMIMETypes)</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 25 '11) <a href="#validateResource_196452"><code>LayerBuilder</code> can validate resources</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 25 '11) <a href="#LayerGenerationException_194545"><code>LayerGenerationException</code> has new constructors</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 25 '11) <a href="#getConfigObject">FileUtil.getConfigObject</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 27 '11) <a href="#to.parent">FileObject.getFileObject accepts ".."</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 24 '10) <a href="#attribute.methodvalue">setAttribute("methodvalue:attrname", method) and "newvalue:"</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 25 '10) <a href="#private-constructor">XMLFileSystem's newvalue can create private instances</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 30 '10) <a href="#FileUtil.normalizePath">
<code>FileUtil.normalizePath</code> added
</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 10 '10) <a href="#createAndOpen">FileObject.createAndOpen</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 1 '10) <a href="#MultiFileSystem.weight">Ability to specify "weight" for <code>MultiFileSystem</code> overrides</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 17 '10) <a href="#addRecursiveListenerStop">Interruptable addRecursiveListener</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 26 '10) <a href="#JarFileSystem-constructor-file">Effective constructor for JarFileSystem</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '10) <a href="#MIMEResolverImpl">Access methods added to <code>MIMEResolver.UIHelpers</code></a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 18 '09) <a href="#recursive-listener">Support for recursive listeners</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 14 '09) <a href="#LayerBuilder.instanceFile">Non-initializing <code>LayerBuilder.instanceFile</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 10 '09) <a href="#LayerBuilder.folder"><code>LayerBuilder.folder</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 31 '09) <a href="#Repository.defaultFileSystem.status">System filesystem label/icon annotations work without full module system</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 25 '09) <a href="#runWhenDeliveryOver">Support for processing batch events</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 12 '09) <a href="#add-fallback-content-to-sfs">Allow modules to provide fallback layer content</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 3 '09) <a href="#FileObject.asText">Read files with asText(), asBytes() and asLines()</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 14 '09) <a href="#FileUtil.addFileChangeListener2">Possibility to add FileChangeListeners on File (even not existing)</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 12 '09) <a href="#FileUtil.getConfigFile">Added FileUtil.getConfigFile and getConfigRoot for simpler access to default filesystem</a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 19 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.setMIMEType">Persisted registration of file extension to MIME type</a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 1 '08) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder">FileChooserBuilder added</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 18 '08) <a href="#DeclarativeMIMEResolvers">Added new elements to MIME resolver DTD</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 1 '08) <a href="#LayerGeneratingProcessor">Support for annotation processors generating XML layer fragments</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 3 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.getMIMEType.withinMIMETypes">FileUtil.getMIMEType() can be restricted by listed MIME types</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 25 '08) <a href="#getAttribute.class">XMLFileSystem attributes can be queried for instance class</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 10 '08) <a href="#testable-declarative-resolvers">Declarative MIME resolvers now available in standalone mode</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 8 '08) <a href="#layer.bundlevalue">XMLFileSystem supports 'bundlevalue' attribute</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 17 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.urlForArchiveOrDir.archiveOrDirForURL">Added methods to interconvert URLs and traditional path entries</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 26 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.addFileChangeListener">Add methods: addFileChangeListener, removeFileChangeListener, refreshAll</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 16 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.refreshFor">Add method FileUtil.refreshFor(File... files)</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.runAtomicAction">Simple way to run atomic action without having a fileobject</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 26 '07) <a href="#FileObject.isLocked">Added method to test if file is locked</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 16 '07) <a href="#FileUtil.order">Added methods to order files in a folder</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 12 '07) <a href="#add-content-to-sfs">Allow modules to dynamically add/remove layer content</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 7 '06) <a href="#createData-and-createFolder-take-File-as-parameter">Added additional methods <code>FileUtil.createData</code>
and <code>FileUtil.createFolder</code> that take <code>java.io.File</code> as a parameter.
</a>
</li>
<li>(May 29 '06) <a href="#method-value-with-map">Semantics of XMLFileSystem's methodvalue extended to
also support methods that do not depend on FileSystems API
at all
</a>
</li>
<li>(May 3 '06) <a href="#added-FileObject-getOutputStream-without-FileLock-parameter">Added additional method <code>FileObject.getOutputStream</code>
that doesn't take <code>FileLock</code> as a parameter.
</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 25 '05) <a href="#semantic-change-in-FileUtil.toFileObject">
The way how <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> is thrown from
<code>FileUtil.toFileObject</code> was changed
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 21 '05) <a href="#no-static-file-ext-mappings">Removed most static MIME type mappings</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 7 '05) <a href="#not-final-method-getFileObject">
<code>FileObject.getFileObject </code> made not final.</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 4 '04) <a href="#FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem">Added new method <code>FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem ()</code>
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 30 '04) <a href="#FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal">Added <code>FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal(...)</code>
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 9 '04) <a href="#issue-37549">Added FileUtil.getFileDisplayName</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '04) <a href="#Repository-deprecations">Almost all methods of Repository were deprecated.</a>
</li>
<li>(May 28 '04) <a href="#issue-43180">Reused DefaultAttributes can use different name than .nbattrs </a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileUtil-archive-handling">Easier to work with ZIP/JAR archives</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileUtil.normalizeFile">
<code>FileUtil.normalizeFile</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileObject.setImportant">
<code>FileObject.setImportant</code> deprecated</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#filesystems-deprecations">Deprecation of various Filesystems API methods and classes</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileObject.getPath-III">
<code>FileObject.toString()</code> not to be used for specific purposes</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 13 '04) <a href="#issue-41506">There should exist just one FileObject for one resource (java.io.File or URL). </a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 9 '03) <a href="#issue-37445">Added API for finding file relatively to another file</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 10 '03) <a href="#version-3.31"> Method FileObject.isReadOnly was deprecated and replaced with methods canRead, canWrite</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '03) <a href="#issue-28312">URLMapper.findFileObjects returns empty array if not successful.</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 22 '02) <a href="#version-3.16">Added FileUtil.isParentOf</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 1 '02) <a href="#FileObject.getPath-II">Changed javadoc to warn about improper use of methods</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 30 '02) <a href="#getPath">
<code>FileObject.getPath()</code> returns full resource path of file object</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 22 '02) <a href="#repository-not-final">Repository is not final</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 6 '02) <a href="#version-2.22">URL -&gt; FileObject mapping implementation</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 25 '02) <a href="#URLMapper">Added support for better FileObject-URL mapping</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 24 '02) <a href="#FileSystem.refresh">There exists possibility to refresh whole filesystem in one </a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 11 '02) <a href="#FileSystem.FileChangeListener">FileSystem provides FileChangeListener functionality </a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 11 '02) <a href="#Repository.FileChangeListener">Repository provides FileChangeListener functionality </a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 17 '02) <a href="#FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME">New property FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME was added </a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 21 '01) <a href="#FileEvent.firedFrom">
<code>FileEvent</code>s fired inside atomic actions can report from which atomic actions they were fired</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 30 '01) <a href="#MultiFileSystem.createWritableOnForRename">Method createWritableOnForRename in MultiFileSystem was added</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 24 '01) <a href="#version-1.33">FileAttributeEvent's methods getName (), getOldValue (), getNewValue () can return null</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 17 '01) <a href="#version-1.30">Discover which filesystem a FileStateInvalidException is associated with</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 31 '01) <a href="#FileUtil.toFile-fromFile">Find a disk file from a file object or vice-versa</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 24 '01) <a href="#3.803008330124762E30">
Mounting new filesystem no longer works with filesystems providing
<code>WizardDescriptor</code> as bean customizers
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 27 '01) <a href="#FileObject.createData-without-ext">Create file object without extension</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 25 '01) <a href="#FileObject.delete-without-lock">Simplified file object deletion</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '01) <a href="#1.4714074904E10">Can mark files as being virtual</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '01) <a href="#5.8856299599E10">Can mark files as being important</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '01) <a href="#4.4502327064E10">Test if a file object is virtual</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 7 '01) <a href="#34382">Get default <code>Repository</code> from within Filesystems API</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 5 '01) <a href="#8.140445082558805E15">Find a MIME type for a file object using resolvers</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 5 '01) <a href="#MIMEResolver">Added <code>MIMEResolver</code>
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 29 '01) <a href="#1.211769431E9">Create expected file events</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '01) <a href="#not-a-cookie">
<code>Repository</code> is not a cookie</a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 6 '00) <a href="#mfs-find-action">
<code>MultiFileSystem</code> finds actions on a set of files specially</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 23 '00) <a href="#2.4475904905823E13">Propagate masks flag for multi-filesystems</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 1 '00) <a href="#370">Added <code>XMLFileSystem</code>
</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 11 '00) <a href="#9.329227231022436E15">MIME lookup by extension made friendlier for C/C++</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 22 '00) <a href="#2.92751569363687E14">Customizable references to known file objects</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 22 '00) <a href="#4.080841976251E12">Find references to file objects by name</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 10 '00) <a href="#8.4004415344141967E18">Find known file objects starting from some point in the tree</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 25 '00) <a href="#repository-adapter-added">
<code>RepositoryAdapter</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 27 '00) <a href="#1.22460676003798656E17">Filesystem implementation methods protected not public</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 24 '00) <a href="#393216">
<code>AbstractFileSystem.refreshRoot</code> was of the wrong type</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>
<a name="all-by-version">Changes by version</a>
</h1>
<p>
These API specification versions may be used to indicate that a module
requires a certain API feature in order to function. For example, if you
see here a feature you need which is labelled <samp>1.20</samp>, your
manifest should contain in its main attributes the line:
</p>
<pre>OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: $codebase &gt; 1.20</pre>
<ul>
<li>
(9.10) <a href="#ArchiveRootProvider">Pluggable archive files support for FileUtil</a>
</li>
<li>
(9.5) <a href="#repository.multiuser">Support for multi-user environments</a>
</li>
<li>
(9.4) <a href="#FileObject.symbolicLinks">Support detection and reading of symbolic links.</a>
</li>
<li>
(9.3) <a href="#FileLock.closeable">FileLock implements AutoCloseable</a>
</li>
<li>
(9.1) <a href="#FileSystemStatus.icons2">FileSystem.Status API removed</a>
</li>
<li>
(9.0) <a href="#FileSystemStatus.icons">FileSystem.Status icon annotation moved</a>
</li>
<li>
(8.12) <a href="#getActionsDeprecated">Deprecating FileSystem.getActions</a>
</li>
<li>
(8.5) <a href="#MultiFileObject.revealEntriesAttribute">Allowed to reveal deleted files, or original files overriden by writable layer</a>
</li>
<li>
(8.3) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder-setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed">New method FileChooserBuilder.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed.</a>
</li>
<li>
(8.1) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder-addDefaultFileFilters">New method FileChooserBuilder.addDefaultFileFilters and accompanying annotations.</a>
</li>
<li>
(8.0) <a href="#fileobject-lookup">FileObject has getLookup()</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.61) <a href="#recursive-listener-with-filter">addRecursiveListener with a filter</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.60) <a href="#FileSystem.createTemporaryFO">File System can create temporary file</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.59) <a href="#LayersProvider">SPI for Additions to System File System</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.58) <a href="#MIMEResolver.Registrations">Annotations to declare MIME type</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.57) <a href="#FileObject.toURI">Introduced <code>FileObject.toURI</code></a>
</li>
<li>
(7.56) <a href="#default-line-separator">Provides default line separator</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.55) <a href="#FileObject.revert">Introduced <code>FileObject.revert</code></a>
</li>
<li>
(7.54) <a href="#FileEvent.4.constructor">Detailed FileEvent constructor</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.52) <a href="#FileObject.getMIMEType...">FileObject.getMIMEType(String... withinMIMETypes)</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.51) <a href="#validateResource_196452"><code>LayerBuilder</code> can validate resources</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.50) <a href="#LayerGenerationException_194545"><code>LayerGenerationException</code> has new constructors</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.49) <a href="#getConfigObject">FileUtil.getConfigObject</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.45) <a href="#to.parent">FileObject.getFileObject accepts ".."</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.43) <a href="#attribute.methodvalue">setAttribute("methodvalue:attrname", method) and "newvalue:"</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.43) <a href="#private-constructor">XMLFileSystem's newvalue can create private instances</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.42) <a href="#FileUtil.normalizePath">
<code>FileUtil.normalizePath</code> added
</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.41) <a href="#createAndOpen">FileObject.createAndOpen</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.37) <a href="#addRecursiveListenerStop">Interruptable addRecursiveListener</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.36) <a href="#MultiFileSystem.weight">Ability to specify "weight" for <code>MultiFileSystem</code> overrides</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.35) <a href="#JarFileSystem-constructor-file">Effective constructor for JarFileSystem</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.34) <a href="#MIMEResolverImpl">Access methods added to <code>MIMEResolver.UIHelpers</code></a>
</li>
<li>
(7.28) <a href="#recursive-listener">Support for recursive listeners</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.27) <a href="#LayerBuilder.instanceFile">Non-initializing <code>LayerBuilder.instanceFile</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.26) <a href="#LayerBuilder.folder"><code>LayerBuilder.folder</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.25) <a href="#Repository.defaultFileSystem.status">System filesystem label/icon annotations work without full module system</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.24) <a href="#runWhenDeliveryOver">Support for processing batch events</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.23) <a href="#add-fallback-content-to-sfs">Allow modules to provide fallback layer content</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.21) <a href="#FileObject.asText">Read files with asText(), asBytes() and asLines()</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.20) <a href="#FileUtil.addFileChangeListener2">Possibility to add FileChangeListeners on File (even not existing)</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.19) <a href="#FileUtil.getConfigFile">Added FileUtil.getConfigFile and getConfigRoot for simpler access to default filesystem</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.18) <a href="#FileUtil.setMIMEType">Persisted registration of file extension to MIME type</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.17) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder">FileChooserBuilder added</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.16) <a href="#DeclarativeMIMEResolvers">Added new elements to MIME resolver DTD</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.15) <a href="#LayerGeneratingProcessor">Support for annotation processors generating XML layer fragments</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.13) <a href="#FileUtil.getMIMEType.withinMIMETypes">FileUtil.getMIMEType() can be restricted by listed MIME types</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.12) <a href="#getAttribute.class">XMLFileSystem attributes can be queried for instance class</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.11) <a href="#testable-declarative-resolvers">Declarative MIME resolvers now available in standalone mode</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.10) <a href="#layer.bundlevalue">XMLFileSystem supports 'bundlevalue' attribute</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.8) <a href="#FileUtil.urlForArchiveOrDir.archiveOrDirForURL">Added methods to interconvert URLs and traditional path entries</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.7) <a href="#FileUtil.addFileChangeListener">Add methods: addFileChangeListener, removeFileChangeListener, refreshAll</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.6) <a href="#FileUtil.refreshFor">Add method FileUtil.refreshFor(File... files)</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.5) <a href="#FileUtil.runAtomicAction">Simple way to run atomic action without having a fileobject</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.3) <a href="#FileObject.isLocked">Added method to test if file is locked</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.2) <a href="#FileUtil.order">Added methods to order files in a folder</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.1) <a href="#add-content-to-sfs">Allow modules to dynamically add/remove layer content</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.0) <a href="#createData-and-createFolder-take-File-as-parameter">Added additional methods <code>FileUtil.createData</code>
and <code>FileUtil.createFolder</code> that take <code>java.io.File</code> as a parameter.
</a>
</li>
<li>
(7.0) <a href="#method-value-with-map">Semantics of XMLFileSystem's methodvalue extended to
also support methods that do not depend on FileSystems API
at all
</a>
</li>
<li>
(6.6) <a href="#added-FileObject-getOutputStream-without-FileLock-parameter">Added additional method <code>FileObject.getOutputStream</code>
that doesn't take <code>FileLock</code> as a parameter.
</a>
</li>
<li>
(6.3) <a href="#semantic-change-in-FileUtil.toFileObject">
The way how <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> is thrown from
<code>FileUtil.toFileObject</code> was changed
</a>
</li>
<li>
(6.2) <a href="#no-static-file-ext-mappings">Removed most static MIME type mappings</a>
</li>
<li>
(5.3) <a href="#not-final-method-getFileObject">
<code>FileObject.getFileObject </code> made not final.</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.48) <a href="#FileUtil-archive-handling">Easier to work with ZIP/JAR archives</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.48) <a href="#FileUtil.normalizeFile">
<code>FileUtil.normalizeFile</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.48) <a href="#FileObject.setImportant">
<code>FileObject.setImportant</code> deprecated</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.48) <a href="#filesystems-deprecations">Deprecation of various Filesystems API methods and classes</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.48) <a href="#FileObject.getPath-III">
<code>FileObject.toString()</code> not to be used for specific purposes</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.43) <a href="#FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem">Added new method <code>FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem ()</code>
</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.42) <a href="#FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal">Added <code>FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal(...)</code>
</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.39) <a href="#issue-37549">Added FileUtil.getFileDisplayName</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.36) <a href="#Repository-deprecations">Almost all methods of Repository were deprecated.</a>
</li>
<li>
(4.35) <a href="#issue-43180">Reused DefaultAttributes can use different name than .nbattrs </a>
</li>
<li>
(4.29) <a href="#issue-41506">There should exist just one FileObject for one resource (java.io.File or URL). </a>
</li>
<li>
(4.16) <a href="#issue-37445">Added API for finding file relatively to another file</a>
</li>
<li>
(3.31) <a href="#version-3.31"> Method FileObject.isReadOnly was deprecated and replaced with methods canRead, canWrite</a>
</li>
<li>
(3.28) <a href="#issue-28312">URLMapper.findFileObjects returns empty array if not successful.</a>
</li>
<li>
(3.17) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li>
<li>
(3.16) <a href="#version-3.16">Added FileUtil.isParentOf</a>
</li>
<li>
(3.14) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li>
<li>
(3.7) <a href="#getPath">
<code>FileObject.getPath()</code> returns full resource path of file object</a>
</li>
<li>
(3.3) <a href="#repository-not-final">Repository is not final</a>
</li>
<li>
(2.22) <a href="#version-2.22">URL -&gt; FileObject mapping implementation</a>
</li>
<li>
(2.16) <a href="#URLMapper">Added support for better FileObject-URL mapping</a>
</li>
<li>
(2.16) <a href="#FileSystem.refresh">There exists possibility to refresh whole filesystem in one </a>
</li>
<li>
(2.8) <a href="#FileSystem.FileChangeListener">FileSystem provides FileChangeListener functionality </a>
</li>
<li>
(2.8) <a href="#Repository.FileChangeListener">Repository provides FileChangeListener functionality </a>
</li>
<li>
(2.1) <a href="#FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME">New property FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME was added </a>
</li>
<li>
(1.35) <a href="#FileEvent.firedFrom">
<code>FileEvent</code>s fired inside atomic actions can report from which atomic actions they were fired</a>
</li>
<li>
(1.34) <a href="#MultiFileSystem.createWritableOnForRename">Method createWritableOnForRename in MultiFileSystem was added</a>
</li>
<li>
(1.33) <a href="#version-1.33">FileAttributeEvent's methods getName (), getOldValue (), getNewValue () can return null</a>
</li>
<li>
(1.30) <a href="#version-1.30">Discover which filesystem a FileStateInvalidException is associated with</a>
</li>
<li>
(1.29) <a href="#FileUtil.toFile-fromFile">Find a disk file from a file object or vice-versa</a>
</li>
<li>
(1.17) <a href="#FileObject.createData-without-ext">Create file object without extension</a>
</li>
<li>
(1.15) <a href="#FileObject.delete-without-lock">Simplified file object deletion</a>
</li>
</ul>
<h1>
<a name="all-by-class">Changes by affected class</a>
</h1>
<h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.AbstractCompileAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>AbstractCompileAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.AbstractFileSystem"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>AbstractFileSystem</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 27 '14) <a href="#FileObject.symbolicLinks">Support detection and reading of symbolic links.</a>
</li>
<li>(May 14 '14) <a href="#getActionsDeprecated">Deprecating FileSystem.getActions</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 10 '03) <a href="#version-3.31"> Method FileObject.isReadOnly was deprecated and replaced with methods canRead, canWrite</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '01) <a href="#1.4714074904E10">Can mark files as being virtual</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '01) <a href="#5.8856299599E10">Can mark files as being important</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 22 '00) <a href="#2.92751569363687E14">Customizable references to known file objects</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 22 '00) <a href="#4.080841976251E12">Find references to file objects by name</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 10 '00) <a href="#8.4004415344141967E18">Find known file objects starting from some point in the tree</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 24 '00) <a href="#393216">
<code>AbstractFileSystem.refreshRoot</code> was of the wrong type</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.AddWatchAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>AddWatchAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.spi.ArchiveRootProvider"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.spi.</span>ArchiveRootProvider</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(May 28 '15) <a href="#ArchiveRootProvider">Pluggable archive files support for FileUtil</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.cookies.ArgumentsCookie"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.cookies.</span>ArgumentsCookie</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.BuildAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>BuildAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.BuildAllAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>BuildAllAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.BuildProjectAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>BuildProjectAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.ChoicePropertyEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>ChoicePropertyEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.CleanAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>CleanAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.CleanAllAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>CleanAllAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.CompileAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>CompileAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.CompileAllAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>CompileAllAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.CompileProjectAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>CompileProjectAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.cookies.CompilerCookie"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.cookies.</span>CompilerCookie</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.loaders.CompilerSupport"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.loaders.</span>CompilerSupport</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.options.ControlPanel"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.options.</span>ControlPanel</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.loaders.DataObjectFilter"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.loaders.</span>DataObjectFilter</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.cookies.DebuggerCookie"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.cookies.</span>DebuggerCookie</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.DebugProjectAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>DebugProjectAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.DefaultAttributes"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>DefaultAttributes</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(May 28 '04) <a href="#issue-43180">Reused DefaultAttributes can use different name than .nbattrs </a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.DialogDisplayer"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.</span>DialogDisplayer</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.DirectoryOnlyEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>DirectoryOnlyEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.cookies.ElementCookie"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.cookies.</span>ElementCookie</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.ElementFormatEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>ElementFormatEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.cookies.ExecCookie"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.cookies.</span>ExecCookie</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.loaders.ExecSupport"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.loaders.</span>ExecSupport</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.ExecuteAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>ExecuteAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.ExecuteProjectAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>ExecuteProjectAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.loaders.ExecutionSupport"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.loaders.</span>ExecutionSupport</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.loaders.ExtensionListEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.loaders.</span>ExtensionListEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.ExternalCompiler"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>ExternalCompiler</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileAttributeEvent"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileAttributeEvent</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Aug 24 '01) <a href="#version-1.33">FileAttributeEvent's methods getName (), getOldValue (), getNewValue () can return null</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 29 '01) <a href="#1.211769431E9">Create expected file events</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileChooserBuilder"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileChooserBuilder</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 30 '12) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder-setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed">New method FileChooserBuilder.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed.</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 29 '12) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder-addDefaultFileFilters">New method FileChooserBuilder.addDefaultFileFilters and accompanying annotations.</a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 1 '08) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder">FileChooserBuilder added</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.FileEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>FileEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileEvent"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileEvent</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 22 '11) <a href="#FileEvent.4.constructor">Detailed FileEvent constructor</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 25 '09) <a href="#runWhenDeliveryOver">Support for processing batch events</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 21 '01) <a href="#FileEvent.firedFrom">
<code>FileEvent</code>s fired inside atomic actions can report from which atomic actions they were fired</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 29 '01) <a href="#1.211769431E9">Create expected file events</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileLock"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileLock</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 10 '14) <a href="#FileLock.closeable">FileLock implements AutoCloseable</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileObject"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileObject</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 27 '14) <a href="#FileObject.symbolicLinks">Support detection and reading of symbolic links.</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 22 '12) <a href="#fileobject-lookup">FileObject has getLookup()</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 20 '12) <a href="#FileObject.toURI">Introduced <code>FileObject.toURI</code></a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 13 '12) <a href="#default-line-separator">Provides default line separator</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 29 '11) <a href="#FileObject.revert">Introduced <code>FileObject.revert</code></a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 5 '11) <a href="#FileObject.getMIMEType...">FileObject.getMIMEType(String... withinMIMETypes)</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 27 '11) <a href="#to.parent">FileObject.getFileObject accepts ".."</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 24 '10) <a href="#attribute.methodvalue">setAttribute("methodvalue:attrname", method) and "newvalue:"</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 10 '10) <a href="#createAndOpen">FileObject.createAndOpen</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 18 '09) <a href="#recursive-listener">Support for recursive listeners</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 3 '09) <a href="#FileObject.asText">Read files with asText(), asBytes() and asLines()</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 26 '07) <a href="#FileObject.isLocked">Added method to test if file is locked</a>
</li>
<li>(May 3 '06) <a href="#added-FileObject-getOutputStream-without-FileLock-parameter">Added additional method <code>FileObject.getOutputStream</code>
that doesn't take <code>FileLock</code> as a parameter.
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 7 '05) <a href="#not-final-method-getFileObject">
<code>FileObject.getFileObject </code> made not final.</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileObject.setImportant">
<code>FileObject.setImportant</code> deprecated</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#filesystems-deprecations">Deprecation of various Filesystems API methods and classes</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileObject.getPath-III">
<code>FileObject.toString()</code> not to be used for specific purposes</a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 9 '03) <a href="#issue-37445">Added API for finding file relatively to another file</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 10 '03) <a href="#version-3.31"> Method FileObject.isReadOnly was deprecated and replaced with methods canRead, canWrite</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 1 '02) <a href="#FileObject.getPath-II">Changed javadoc to warn about improper use of methods</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 30 '02) <a href="#getPath">
<code>FileObject.getPath()</code> returns full resource path of file object</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 27 '01) <a href="#FileObject.createData-without-ext">Create file object without extension</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 25 '01) <a href="#FileObject.delete-without-lock">Simplified file object deletion</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '01) <a href="#4.4502327064E10">Test if a file object is virtual</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.FileOnlyEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>FileOnlyEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileRenameEvent"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileRenameEvent</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Jan 29 '01) <a href="#1.211769431E9">Create expected file events</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileStateInvalidException"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileStateInvalidException</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Aug 17 '01) <a href="#version-1.30">Discover which filesystem a FileStateInvalidException is associated with</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileSystem"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileSystem</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(May 14 '14) <a href="#getActionsDeprecated">Deprecating FileSystem.getActions</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 20 '12) <a href="#FileSystem.createTemporaryFO">File System can create temporary file</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 31 '09) <a href="#Repository.defaultFileSystem.status">System filesystem label/icon annotations work without full module system</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#filesystems-deprecations">Deprecation of various Filesystems API methods and classes</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 24 '02) <a href="#FileSystem.refresh">There exists possibility to refresh whole filesystem in one </a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 11 '02) <a href="#FileSystem.FileChangeListener">FileSystem provides FileChangeListener functionality </a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 17 '02) <a href="#FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME">New property FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME was added </a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.FileUtil"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>FileUtil</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(May 28 '15) <a href="#ArchiveRootProvider">Pluggable archive files support for FileUtil</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 27 '14) <a href="#FileObject.symbolicLinks">Support detection and reading of symbolic links.</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 11 '12) <a href="#recursive-listener-with-filter">addRecursiveListener with a filter</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 25 '11) <a href="#getConfigObject">FileUtil.getConfigObject</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 24 '10) <a href="#attribute.methodvalue">setAttribute("methodvalue:attrname", method) and "newvalue:"</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 30 '10) <a href="#FileUtil.normalizePath">
<code>FileUtil.normalizePath</code> added
</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 17 '10) <a href="#addRecursiveListenerStop">Interruptable addRecursiveListener</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 18 '09) <a href="#recursive-listener">Support for recursive listeners</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 14 '09) <a href="#FileUtil.addFileChangeListener2">Possibility to add FileChangeListeners on File (even not existing)</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 12 '09) <a href="#FileUtil.getConfigFile">Added FileUtil.getConfigFile and getConfigRoot for simpler access to default filesystem</a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 19 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.setMIMEType">Persisted registration of file extension to MIME type</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 3 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.getMIMEType.withinMIMETypes">FileUtil.getMIMEType() can be restricted by listed MIME types</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 17 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.urlForArchiveOrDir.archiveOrDirForURL">Added methods to interconvert URLs and traditional path entries</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 26 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.addFileChangeListener">Add methods: addFileChangeListener, removeFileChangeListener, refreshAll</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 16 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.refreshFor">Add method FileUtil.refreshFor(File... files)</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.runAtomicAction">Simple way to run atomic action without having a fileobject</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 16 '07) <a href="#FileUtil.order">Added methods to order files in a folder</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 7 '06) <a href="#createData-and-createFolder-take-File-as-parameter">Added additional methods <code>FileUtil.createData</code>
and <code>FileUtil.createFolder</code> that take <code>java.io.File</code> as a parameter.
</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 25 '05) <a href="#semantic-change-in-FileUtil.toFileObject">
The way how <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> is thrown from
<code>FileUtil.toFileObject</code> was changed
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 21 '05) <a href="#no-static-file-ext-mappings">Removed most static MIME type mappings</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 4 '04) <a href="#FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem">Added new method <code>FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem ()</code>
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 30 '04) <a href="#FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal">Added <code>FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal(...)</code>
</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 9 '04) <a href="#issue-37549">Added FileUtil.getFileDisplayName</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileUtil-archive-handling">Easier to work with ZIP/JAR archives</a>
</li>
<li>(May 7 '04) <a href="#FileUtil.normalizeFile">
<code>FileUtil.normalizeFile</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 13 '04) <a href="#issue-41506">There should exist just one FileObject for one resource (java.io.File or URL). </a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 9 '03) <a href="#issue-37445">Added API for finding file relatively to another file</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 22 '02) <a href="#version-3.16">Added FileUtil.isParentOf</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 31 '01) <a href="#FileUtil.toFile-fromFile">Find a disk file from a file object or vice-versa</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 5 '01) <a href="#8.140445082558805E15">Find a MIME type for a file object using resolvers</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 11 '00) <a href="#9.329227231022436E15">MIME lookup by extension made friendlier for C/C++</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.FinishDebuggerAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>FinishDebuggerAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.GoAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>GoAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.GoToCursorAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>GoToCursorAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.HelpAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>HelpAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.awt.HtmlBrowser"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.awt.</span>HtmlBrowser</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.IconEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>IconEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.IdentifierArrayEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>IdentifierArrayEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.modules.IllegalModuleException"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.modules.</span>IllegalModuleException</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.windows.InputOutput"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.windows.</span>InputOutput</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.windows.IOProvider"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.windows.</span>IOProvider</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li>
<li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.JarFileSystem"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>JarFileSystem</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Jan 26 '10) <a href="#JarFileSystem-constructor-file">Effective constructor for JarFileSystem</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 27 '00) <a href="#1.22460676003798656E17">Filesystem implementation methods protected not public</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.annotations.LayerBuilder"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.annotations.</span>LayerBuilder</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Jul 25 '11) <a href="#validateResource_196452"><code>LayerBuilder</code> can validate resources</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 25 '11) <a href="#LayerGenerationException_194545"><code>LayerGenerationException</code> has new constructors</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 14 '09) <a href="#LayerBuilder.instanceFile">Non-initializing <code>LayerBuilder.instanceFile</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 10 '09) <a href="#LayerBuilder.folder"><code>LayerBuilder.folder</code> added</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 1 '08) <a href="#LayerGeneratingProcessor">Support for annotation processors generating XML layer fragments</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.annotations.LayerGeneratingProcessor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.annotations.</span>LayerGeneratingProcessor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '08) <a href="#LayerGeneratingProcessor">Support for annotation processors generating XML layer fragments</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.annotations.LayerGenerationException"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.annotations.</span>LayerGenerationException</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Jul 25 '11) <a href="#LayerGenerationException_194545"><code>LayerGenerationException</code> has new constructors</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 1 '08) <a href="#LayerGeneratingProcessor">Support for annotation processors generating XML layer fragments</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.LifecycleManager"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.</span>LifecycleManager</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.LocalFileSystem"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>LocalFileSystem</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Mar 27 '00) <a href="#1.22460676003798656E17">Filesystem implementation methods protected not public</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.modules.ManifestSection"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.modules.</span>ManifestSection</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.MethodParameterArrayEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>MethodParameterArrayEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.MIMEResolver"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>MIMEResolver</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Aug 29 '12) <a href="#FileChooserBuilder-addDefaultFileFilters">New method FileChooserBuilder.addDefaultFileFilters and accompanying annotations.</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 2 '12) <a href="#MIMEResolver.Registrations">Annotations to declare MIME type</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '10) <a href="#MIMEResolverImpl">Access methods added to <code>MIMEResolver.UIHelpers</code></a>
</li>
<li>(Sep 3 '08) <a href="#FileUtil.getMIMEType.withinMIMETypes">FileUtil.getMIMEType() can be restricted by listed MIME types</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 10 '08) <a href="#testable-declarative-resolvers">Declarative MIME resolvers now available in standalone mode</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 5 '01) <a href="#MIMEResolver">Added <code>MIMEResolver</code>
</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.ModifierEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>ModifierEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.modules.ModuleDescription"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.modules.</span>ModuleDescription</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.MultiFileSystem"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>MultiFileSystem</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(May 14 '14) <a href="#getActionsDeprecated">Deprecating FileSystem.getActions</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 1 '10) <a href="#MultiFileSystem.weight">Ability to specify "weight" for <code>MultiFileSystem</code> overrides</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 30 '01) <a href="#MultiFileSystem.createWritableOnForRename">Method createWritableOnForRename in MultiFileSystem was added</a>
</li>
<li>(Dec 6 '00) <a href="#mfs-find-action">
<code>MultiFileSystem</code> finds actions on a set of files specially</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 23 '00) <a href="#2.4475904905823E13">Propagate masks flag for multi-filesystems</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.nodes.NodeOperation"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.nodes.</span>NodeOperation</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.OpenProjectAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>OpenProjectAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.windows.OutputEvent"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.windows.</span>OutputEvent</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.windows.OutputListener"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.windows.</span>OutputListener</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.windows.OutputWriter"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.windows.</span>OutputWriter</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Nov 1 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.Places"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.</span>Places</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.cookies.ProjectCookie"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.cookies.</span>ProjectCookie</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.util.actions.ProjectSensitiveAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.util.actions.</span>ProjectSensitiveAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.Repository"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>Repository</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Feb 25 '15) <a href="#repository.multiuser">Support for multi-user environments</a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 3 '12) <a href="#LayersProvider">SPI for Additions to System File System</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 12 '09) <a href="#add-fallback-content-to-sfs">Allow modules to provide fallback layer content</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 12 '07) <a href="#add-content-to-sfs">Allow modules to dynamically add/remove layer content</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 1 '04) <a href="#Repository-deprecations">Almost all methods of Repository were deprecated.</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 22 '02) <a href="#repository-not-final">Repository is not final</a>
</li>
<li>(Mar 11 '02) <a href="#Repository.FileChangeListener">Repository provides FileChangeListener functionality </a>
</li>
<li>(Feb 7 '01) <a href="#34382">Get default <code>Repository</code> from within Filesystems API</a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '01) <a href="#not-a-cookie">
<code>Repository</code> is not a cookie</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.RepositoryAdapter"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>RepositoryAdapter</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Jun 25 '00) <a href="#repository-adapter-added">
<code>RepositoryAdapter</code> added</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.loaders.RepositoryNodeFactory"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.loaders.</span>RepositoryNodeFactory</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.SaveProjectAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>SaveProjectAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.cookies.SourceCookie"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.cookies.</span>SourceCookie</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.StartDebuggerAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>StartDebuggerAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.StatusDecorator"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>StatusDecorator</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 3 '14) <a href="#FileSystemStatus.icons2">FileSystem.Status API removed</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.awt.StatusDisplayer"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.awt.</span>StatusDisplayer</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.StepOutAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>StepOutAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.StringArrayCustomEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>StringArrayCustomEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.StringArrayCustomizable"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>StringArrayCustomizable</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.StringArrayEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>StringArrayEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.ToggleBreakpointAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>ToggleBreakpointAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.TopManager"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.</span>TopManager</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.TraceIntoAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>TraceIntoAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.actions.TraceOverAction"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.actions.</span>TraceOverAction</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.TypeEditor"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.</span>TypeEditor</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 15 '02) <a href="#issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.URLMapper"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>URLMapper</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Apr 13 '04) <a href="#issue-41506">There should exist just one FileObject for one resource (java.io.File or URL). </a>
</li>
<li>(Jan 8 '03) <a href="#issue-28312">URLMapper.findFileObjects returns empty array if not successful.</a>
</li>
<li>(Jun 6 '02) <a href="#version-2.22">URL -&gt; FileObject mapping implementation</a>
</li>
<li>(Apr 25 '02) <a href="#URLMapper">Added support for better FileObject-URL mapping</a>
</li></ul><h2>
<a name="org.openide.filesystems.XMLFileSystem"><code><span style="color:gray">org.openide.filesystems.</span>XMLFileSystem</code></a>
</h2><ul><li>(Oct 25 '10) <a href="#private-constructor">XMLFileSystem's newvalue can create private instances</a>
</li>
<li>(Aug 25 '08) <a href="#getAttribute.class">XMLFileSystem attributes can be queried for instance class</a>
</li>
<li>(Jul 8 '08) <a href="#layer.bundlevalue">XMLFileSystem supports 'bundlevalue' attribute</a>
</li>
<li>(May 29 '06) <a href="#method-value-with-map">Semantics of XMLFileSystem's methodvalue extended to
also support methods that do not depend on FileSystems API
at all
</a>
</li>
<li>(Nov 1 '00) <a href="#370">Added <code>XMLFileSystem</code>
</a>
</li></ul><hr>
<h1>
<a name="details-by-api">Details of all changes by API and date</a>
</h1>
<hr style="width:50%">
<h2>
<a name="filesystems">Filesystems API</a>
</h2>
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<h3>
<a name="ArchiveRootProvider">Pluggable archive files support for FileUtil</a>
</h3>
<em>May 28 '15; API spec. version: 9.10; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/spi/ArchiveRootProvider.html"><code>ArchiveRootProvider</code></a>; made by: tzezula</em>
<br>
To support JDK 9 image file as an archive the FileUtil's method
<code>getArchiveFile</code>,<code>getArchiveRoot</code> and <code>isArchiveFile</code>
are pluggable using a new SPI <code>ArchiveFileProvider</code>.
In addition to these methods a new method <code>isArchiveArtifact</code> was added.
This method can be used if given <code>URL</code> points into an archive.
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<a name="repository.multiuser">Support for multi-user environments</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 25 '15; API spec. version: 9.5; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a>; made by: sdedic</em>
<br>
To support multiple configurations (users, profiles, ...) executing in the same VM, multiple
Repositories can be created, one for each execution context. API has been added to acquire
and SPI to create a local Repository which holds config filesystem for the execution thraed.
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<a name="FileObject.symbolicLinks">Support detection and reading of symbolic links.</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 27 '14; API spec. version: 9.4; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jhavlin; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237882">
#237882</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Add methods to <code>FileObject</code> for handling of
symbolic links:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<code>isSymbolicLink()</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>readSymbolicLink()</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>readSymbolicLinkPath()</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>getCanonicalFileObject()</code>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Add utility method to <code>FileUtil</code> for dealing with
recursive symbolic links.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<code>isRecursiveSymbolicLink()</code>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Introduce new interface <a href="org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.SymlinkInfo.html" shape="rect">AbstractFileSystem.SymlinkInfo</a>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileLock.closeable">FileLock implements AutoCloseable</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 10 '14; API spec. version: 9.3; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileLock.html"><code>FileLock</code></a>; made by: sdedic; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247915">
#247915</a></em>
<br>
<p>
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileLock.html" shape="rect">FileLock</a>
implements AutoCloseable to work well in try-with-resources constructs.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileSystemStatus.icons2">FileSystem.Status API removed</a>
</h3>
<em>Oct 3 '14; API spec. version: 9.1; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/StatusDecorator.html"><code>StatusDecorator</code></a>; made by: sdedic; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247200">
#247200</a></em>
<br>
<p>
The FileSystem.Status was entirely removed, as it references class java.awt.Image, which
is not available in compact jdk profiles and may trigger GUI system initialization. See
javadocs of <a href="org/openide/filesystems/StatusDecorator.html" shape="rect">StatusDecorator</a>
for details.
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<h3>
<a name="getActionsDeprecated">Deprecating FileSystem.getActions</a>
</h3>
<em>May 14 '14; API spec. version: 8.12; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html"><code>FileSystem</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MultiFileSystem.html"><code>MultiFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243265">
#243265</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Deprecating <code>getActions</code> method in preparation
of splitting filesystems API into UI (e.g. depending
on Swing) and non-UI part (that can run on JDK8 compact
profile). Introducing general replacement
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html#findExtrasFor-java.util.Set-" shape="rect">findExtrasFor</a>
instead...
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileSystemStatus.icons">FileSystem.Status icon annotation moved</a>
</h3>
<em>Apr 11 '14; API spec. version: 9.0; made by: sdedic; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243561">
#243561</a></em>
<br>
<p>
The default implementation of FileSystem.Status annotated file's icon using ImageUtilities
which uses AWT graphics etc. Such dependency is not desirable in a standalone FileSystem API
library.
</p>
<p>
The builtin implementation now does not work with the icon at all and returns null. A proper
implementation for FileSystem.Status is looked up in default Lookup and is implemented
properly (with Icon annotations) in <code>openide.filesystems.nb</code> module.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="MultiFileObject.revealEntriesAttribute">Allowed to reveal deleted files, or original files overriden by writable layer</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 23 '12; API spec. version: 8.5; made by: sdedic</em>
<br>
<p>
Files which have been deleted can be obtained by <code>folder.getAttribute("revealEntries")</code>.
See <a href="org/openide/filesystems/MultiFileSystem.html" shape="rect">MultiFileSystem
</a> javadoc for details
</p>
<p>
<b>Warning:</b> stability of this feature is <b>development</b>
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileChooserBuilder-setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed">New method FileChooserBuilder.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed.</a>
</h3>
<em>Oct 30 '12; API spec. version: 8.3; affected top-level classes: <code>org.openide.filesystems.FileChooserBuilder</code>; made by: tmysik; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=220401">
#220401</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added <a href="../org-openide-filesystems-nb/org/openide/filesystems/FileChooserBuilder.html#setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed-boolean-" shape="rect">
new method</a> to <code>FileChooserBuilder</code> that determines whether the <code>AcceptAll FileFilter</code>
should be used in the created file chooser.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileChooserBuilder-addDefaultFileFilters">New method FileChooserBuilder.addDefaultFileFilters and accompanying annotations.</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 29 '12; API spec. version: 8.1; affected top-level classes: <code>org.openide.filesystems.FileChooserBuilder</code> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.html"><code>MIMEResolver</code></a>; made by: jhavlin; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209998">
#209998</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added <a href="../org-openide-filesystems-nb/org/openide/filesystems/FileChooserBuilder.html#addDefaultFileFilters--" shape="rect">
new method</a> to <code>FileChooserBuilder</code> that adds all default
<code>FileFilter</code>s to created file chooser.
</p>
<p>
Default filters are registered using new parameters in annotations
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.Registration.html#showInFileChooser--" shape="rect">MimeResolver.Registration</a>
and <a href="org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.ExtensionRegistration.html#showInFileChooser--" shape="rect">MimeResolver.ExtensionRegistration</a>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="fileobject-lookup">FileObject has getLookup()</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 22 '12; API spec. version: 8.0; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209231">
#209231</a></em>
<br>
<p>
<code>FileObject</code> now implements <code>Lookup.Provider</code>
and thus has new
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#getLookup--" shape="rect">
getLookup</a>() method.
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<h3>
<a name="recursive-listener-with-filter">addRecursiveListener with a filter</a>
</h3>
<em>Apr 11 '12; API spec. version: 7.61; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207189">
#207189</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#addRecursiveListener-org.openide.filesystems.FileChangeListener-java.io.File-java.io.FileFilter-java.util.concurrent.Callable-" shape="rect">
new method</a> variant to register recursive listener
and control whether to recurse into a subtree or not via
<code>FileFilter</code>.
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<h3>
<a name="FileSystem.createTemporaryFO">File System can create temporary file</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 20 '12; API spec. version: 7.60; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html"><code>FileSystem</code></a>; made by: alexvsimon; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207659">
#207659</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added methods to create temporary file objects:
<code>FileSystem.getTempFolder</code>, <code>FileSystem.createTempFile</code>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="LayersProvider">SPI for Additions to System File System</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 3 '12; API spec. version: 7.59; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198508">
#198508</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Those who wish to influence content of
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#getConfigRoot--" shape="rect">
configuration file system</a> have an easier
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/Repository.LayerProvider.html" shape="rect">
way</a> now.
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<h3>
<a name="MIMEResolver.Registrations">Annotations to declare MIME type</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 2 '12; API spec. version: 7.58; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.html"><code>MIMEResolver</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191777">
#191777</a></em>
<br>
<p>
There are new annotations to register mime type. One
can either use simpler ones based on
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.ExtensionRegistration.html" shape="rect">
extension</a> or
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.NamespaceRegistration.html" shape="rect">
XML namespace</a>. In case these registration are not
powerful enough one can use the original and flexible
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.Registration.html" shape="rect">
XML file based registration</a> which is however processed
during compile time to avoid needless XML parsing on each
start.
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<h3>
<a name="FileObject.toURI">Introduced <code>FileObject.toURI</code></a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 20 '12; API spec. version: 7.57; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207294">
#207294</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added <code>FileObject.toURI</code> for convenience.
</p>
<p>
Also deprecated <code>FileObject.getURL</code> in favor of <code>toURL</code>
which is the same but does not throw <code>FileStateInvalidException</code>,
and clarified that <code>URLMapper.findURL(fo, INTERNAL)</code>
will never return null.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
<code>FileObject.getURL</code> should be replaced with <code>toURL</code> (or <code>toURI</code>),
which also throw no checked exceptions.
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<h3>
<a name="default-line-separator">Provides default line separator</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 13 '12; API spec. version: 7.56; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: alexvsimon; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199534">
#199534</a></em>
<br>
<p>
FileObject.DEFAULT_LINE_SEPARATOR_ATTR defines file object attribute name to get default line separator.
File object can provide default line separator if it differs from
<code>System.getProperty("line.separator")</code>. Call
<code>fo.getAttribute(FileObject.DEFAULT_LINE_SEPARATOR_ATTR)</code> returns string with
default line separator. Default line separator will be used by the text
editor if saving new content to an initially empty file. Any other code
which creates file content programmatically must manually read this
property if it cares.
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<h3>
<a name="FileObject.revert">Introduced <code>FileObject.revert</code></a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 29 '11; API spec. version: 7.55; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162526">
#162526</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added <code>revert</code> and <code>canRevert</code> to <code>FileObject</code>.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
The previous SPI has been kept. Only a more convenient API has been introduced,
so it is no longer necessary for callers to look for a <code>removeWritables</code> attribute.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileEvent.4.constructor">Detailed FileEvent constructor</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 22 '11; API spec. version: 7.54; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileEvent.html"><code>FileEvent</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203477">
#203477</a></em>
<br>
<p>New <code>FileEvent</code> constructor allowing specification
of expected state as well as time.
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<h3>
<a name="FileObject.getMIMEType...">FileObject.getMIMEType(String... withinMIMETypes)</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 5 '11; API spec. version: 7.52; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199642">
#199642</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Introducing <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#getMIMEType-java.lang.String...-" shape="rect">
FileObject.getMIMEType(String...)
</a> that can be overriden by different implementations
of file system API.
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<h3>
<a name="validateResource_196452"><code>LayerBuilder</code> can validate resources</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 25 '11; API spec. version: 7.51; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/annotations/LayerBuilder.html"><code>LayerBuilder</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196452">
#196452</a></em>
<br>
<p>
<code>LayerBuilder</code> has a new <code>validateResource</code> method.
<code>absolutizeResource</code> was also added.
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<h3>
<a name="LayerGenerationException_194545"><code>LayerGenerationException</code> has new constructors</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 25 '11; API spec. version: 7.50; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/annotations/LayerGenerationException.html"><code>LayerGenerationException</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/annotations/LayerBuilder.html"><code>LayerBuilder</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194545">
#194545</a></em>
<br>
<p>
<code>LayerGenerationException</code> has new constructors making it easier to specify
the particular annotation responsible for a problem.
Some methods in <code>LayerBuilder</code> have new overloads to take advantage of it.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
Code using the constructors not specifying an annotation should now do so.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="getConfigObject">FileUtil.getConfigObject</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 25 '11; API spec. version: 7.49; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169338">
#169338</a></em>
<br>
<p>
One can convert files in SystemFileSystem to Object with
a
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#getConfigObject-java.lang.String-java.lang.Class-" shape="rect">
single utility method</a>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="to.parent">FileObject.getFileObject accepts ".."</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 27 '11; API spec. version: 7.45; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194418">
#194418</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Semantic of
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#getFileObject-java.lang.String-" shape="rect">
getFileObject
</a> method has been clarified to accept "..".
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="attribute.methodvalue">setAttribute("methodvalue:attrname", method) and "newvalue:"</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 24 '10; API spec. version: 7.43; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120724">
#120724</a></em>
<br>
<p>
You can use prefix <code>"methodvalue:"</code> to
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#setAttribute-java.lang.String-java.lang.Object-" shape="rect">
setAttribute
</a>
with type of <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/Method.html" shape="rect">Method</a>.
When the attribute is queried (without the prefix), the
method is called as is common in
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html" shape="rect">XMLFileSystem</a>
attributes. You can also use <code>newvalue:</code> prefix
for attribute of type
<a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Class.html" shape="rect">Class</a>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="private-constructor">XMLFileSystem's newvalue can create private instances</a>
</h3>
<em>Oct 25 '10; API spec. version: 7.43; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html"><code>XMLFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=141698">
#141698</a></em>
<br>
<p>
If the class referenced from <code>newvalue</code>
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html" shape="rect">XMLFileSystem</a>
attribute is not public, it is made accessible for reflection.
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.normalizePath">
<code>FileUtil.normalizePath</code> added
</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 30 '10; API spec. version: 7.42; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: vv159170; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190480">
#190480</a></em>
<br>
<p>
The method
<code>FileUtil.normalizePath(String)</code> was added as a refinement of
<code>FileUtil.normalizeFile</code> that does not require String to File to String conversion
on client side when intention is to convert unnormalized path to normalized path presentation.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="createAndOpen">FileObject.createAndOpen</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 10 '10; API spec. version: 7.41; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40739">
#40739</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Create a file and write its content (almost) atomically using the new
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#createAndOpen-java.lang.String-" shape="rect">FileObject.createAndOpen</a>
method.
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<h3>
<a name="MultiFileSystem.weight">Ability to specify "weight" for <code>MultiFileSystem</code> overrides</a>
</h3>
<em>Mar 1 '10; API spec. version: 7.36; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MultiFileSystem.html"><code>MultiFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=141925">
#141925</a></em>
<br>
<p>
<code>MultiFileSystem</code>s will now interpret a special
file attribute <code>weight</code> to determine how to
resolve otherwise ambiguous overrides. For example, in the
system filesystem, module XML layers can use this attribute.
Suppose a generic infrastructure module declares:
</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
&lt;filesystem&gt;
&lt;folder name="my-snippets"&gt;
&lt;file name="common.xml" url="generic-snippet.xml"/&gt;
&lt;/folder&gt;
&lt;/filesystem&gt;
</pre>
<p>
If another module wishes to override this declaration, it
can do so by specifying:
</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
&lt;filesystem&gt;
&lt;folder name="my-snippets"&gt;
&lt;file name="common.xml" url="special-snippet.xml"&gt;
&lt;attr name="weight" intvalue="100"/&gt;
&lt;/file&gt;
&lt;/folder&gt;
&lt;/filesystem&gt;
</pre>
<p>
This override will work even if the module system happens
to load the specializing module <em>before</em> the infrastructure
module (as could happen if there is no module dependency
between them). The weight attribute also makes it clear that
something is being overridden.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
Modules need no longer declare runtime-only dependencies
on other modules merely to override their layer entries.
Instead, they should specify a higher weight.
(Normally the base module will declare no weight, so any
positive number will do.)
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<h3>
<a name="addRecursiveListenerStop">Interruptable addRecursiveListener</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 17 '10; API spec. version: 7.37; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180523">
#180523</a></em>
<br>
<p>
New variant of <code>addRecursiveListener</code> method
that allows the caller to control the process enumerating
files in subtree and stop it.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="JarFileSystem-constructor-file">Effective constructor for JarFileSystem</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 26 '10; API spec. version: 7.35; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/JarFileSystem.html"><code>JarFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177461">
#177461</a></em>
<br>
<p>
New constructor for <code>JarFileSystem</code>
that initializes everything without opening the underlaying
JAR file.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="MIMEResolverImpl">Access methods added to <code>MIMEResolver.UIHelpers</code></a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 8 '10; API spec. version: 7.34; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.html"><code>MIMEResolver</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179289">
#179289</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Several internal methods were added to nested class
of <code>MIMEResolver</code> - <code>UIHelpers</code>
for use from other parts of the NetBeans Platform. Use from
other modules is not supported.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="recursive-listener">Support for recursive listeners</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 18 '09; API spec. version: 7.28; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170862">
#170862</a></em>
<br>
<p>
One can register a recursive listener on a file object by
calling
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#addRecursiveListener-org.openide.filesystems.FileChangeListener-" shape="rect">FileObject.addRecursiveListener(FileChangeListener)</a>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="LayerBuilder.instanceFile">Non-initializing <code>LayerBuilder.instanceFile</code> added</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 14 '09; API spec. version: 7.27; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/annotations/LayerBuilder.html"><code>LayerBuilder</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171284">
#171284</a></em>
<br>
<p>
New overload of <code>instanceFile</code> makes it easier to create
instances for use with lazy factories.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="LayerBuilder.folder"><code>LayerBuilder.folder</code> added</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 10 '09; API spec. version: 7.26; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/annotations/LayerBuilder.html"><code>LayerBuilder</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171029">
#171029</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Now possible to create empty folders from layer-generating processors.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="Repository.defaultFileSystem.status">System filesystem label/icon annotations work without full module system</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 31 '09; API spec. version: 7.25; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html"><code>FileSystem</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171092">
#171092</a></em>
<br>
<p>
For convenience from unit tests, the system filesystem will now always
process annotations such as <code>displayName</code> in its <code>FileSystem.Status</code>.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
An application or unit test installing a custom system filesystem
and <em>not</em> overriding <code>getStatus</code> but <em>expecting</em>
the default implementation to do nothing could be broken.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="runWhenDeliveryOver">Support for processing batch events</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 25 '09; API spec. version: 7.24; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileEvent.html"><code>FileEvent</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170544">
#170544</a></em>
<br>
<p>
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileEvent.html#runWhenDeliveryOver-java.lang.Runnable-" shape="rect">
FileEvent.runWhenDeliveryOver(Runnable)</a> method added to support
easier processing of <em>batch</em> sets of events.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="add-fallback-content-to-sfs">Allow modules to provide fallback layer content</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 12 '09; API spec. version: 7.23; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169892">
#169892</a></em>
<br>
<p>
One can provide <q>fallback</q>
<a href="architecture-summary.html#answer-arch-usecases" shape="rect">content of system filesystem</a> by
returning <code>Boolean.TRUE</code> from call
to <code>fs.getRoot().getAttribute("fallback")</code>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileObject.asText">Read files with asText(), asBytes() and asLines()</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 3 '09; API spec. version: 7.21; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jtulach</em>
<br>
<p>
Added <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#asBytes--" shape="rect">
asBytes()</a>,
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#asText-java.lang.String-" shape="rect">
asText(encoding)</a>,
and <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html#asLines-java.lang.String-" shape="rect">
asLines(encoding)</a> methods into
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html" shape="rect">FileObject</a>
to simplify reading of its content.
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.addFileChangeListener2">Possibility to add FileChangeListeners on File (even not existing)</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 14 '09; API spec. version: 7.20; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jskrivanek; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33162">
#33162</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#addFileChangeListener-org.openide.filesystems.FileChangeListener-java.io.File-" shape="rect">
FileUtil.addFileChangeListener(FileChangeListener listener, File path)</a>
and <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#removeFileChangeListener-org.openide.filesystems.FileChangeListener-java.io.File-" shape="rect">
FileUtil.addFileChangeListener(FileChangeListener listener, File path)</a>.
It permits you to listen to a file which does not yet exist,
or continue listening to it after it is deleted and recreated, etc.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.getConfigFile">Added FileUtil.getConfigFile and getConfigRoot for simpler access to default filesystem</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 12 '09; API spec. version: 7.19; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jskrivanek; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91534">
#91534</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Rather than having to call
<code>Repository.getDefault().getDefaultFileSystem().getRoot().getFileObject("foo/bar")</code>,
you can simply call
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#getConfigFile-java.lang.String-" shape="rect">FileUtil.getConfigFile("foo/bar")</a>.
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.setMIMEType">Persisted registration of file extension to MIME type</a>
</h3>
<em>Dec 19 '08; API spec. version: 7.18; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jskrivanek; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=153202">
#153202</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Method <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#setMIMEType-java.lang.String-java.lang.String-" shape="rect">
FileUtil.setMIMEType(String extension, String mimeType)</a>
resurrected to register file extension for specified MIME type.
It is persisted in userdir contrary to previous implementation.
Added method <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#getMIMETypeExtensions-java.lang.String-" shape="rect">
FileUtil.getMIMETypeExtensions(String mimeType)</a>
to get list of file extensions associated with specified MIME type.
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<h3>
<a name="FileChooserBuilder">FileChooserBuilder added</a>
</h3>
<em>Dec 1 '08; API spec. version: 7.17; affected top-level classes: <code>org.openide.filesystems.FileChooserBuilder</code>; made by: tboudreau; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47737">
#47737</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added FileChooserBuilder, a utility class for working with
JFileChoosers. In particular, FileChooserBuilder makes it
easy to create file chooser dialogs which remember what
directory the user last invoked them on, across sessions.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
Added org.openide.filesystems.FileChooserBuilder to API.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="DeclarativeMIMEResolvers">Added new elements to MIME resolver DTD</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 18 '08; API spec. version: 7.16; made by: jskrivanek; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142760">
#142760</a></em>
<br>
<p>
It is now possible to write declarive MIME resolvers checking
file names (element name) and file content (element pattern).
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<h3>
<a name="LayerGeneratingProcessor">Support for annotation processors generating XML layer fragments</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 1 '08; API spec. version: 7.15; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/annotations/LayerGeneratingProcessor.html"><code>LayerGeneratingProcessor</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/annotations/LayerBuilder.html"><code>LayerBuilder</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/annotations/LayerGenerationException.html"><code>LayerGenerationException</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149136">
#149136</a></em>
<br>
<p>
It is now possible to write JSR 269-compliant annotation processors
which create XML layer (i.e. system filesystem) entries.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
Any code which scans modules for XML layers should now interpret not only
the <code>OpenIDE-Module-Layer</code> manifest attribute (if present),
but also use the resource <code>META-INF/generated-layer.xml</code> if present.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.getMIMEType.withinMIMETypes">FileUtil.getMIMEType() can be restricted by listed MIME types</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 3 '08; API spec. version: 7.13; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.html"><code>MIMEResolver</code></a>; made by: jskrivanek; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137734">
#137734</a></em>
<br>
<p>
To speed up MIME type recognition it is added an extra parameter
to method <a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html#getMIMEType-org.openide.filesystems.FileObject-java.lang.String...-" shape="rect">FileUtil.getMIMEType(FileObject, String...)</a>.
We can supply one or more MIME types which we are only interested in.
Module writers have to override
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.html" shape="rect">MIMEResolver</a>
default constructor and call <code>super(String...)</code>, e.g.:
</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
public MyResolver() {
super("text/plain", "text/sh");
}
</pre>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
If you have a <code>MIMEResolver</code> subclass, be sure to use the new super constructor.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="getAttribute.class">XMLFileSystem attributes can be queried for instance class</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 25 '08; API spec. version: 7.12; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html"><code>XMLFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jskrivanek; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=131951">
#131951</a></em>
<br>
<p>
If you are interested just in the Class of an attribute, but
without creating its instance, use <code>fileObject.getAttribute("class:attrName")</code>.
This instructs the <a href="org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html" shape="rect">XMLFileSystem</a>
to scan its XML files for definition of <code>attrName</code>
attribute and <i>guess</i> its class. The <i>guessing</i> is
usually easy, just for <code>methodvalue</code> types, the system
needs to use some kind of heuristic: it locates the
appropriate factory method and returns its return type. This may
not be the actual type of the returned object at the end, but
it seems as the best guess without instantiating it.
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<h3>
<a name="testable-declarative-resolvers">Declarative MIME resolvers now available in standalone mode</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 10 '08; API spec. version: 7.11; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.html"><code>MIMEResolver</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138846">
#138846</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Declaratively registered MIME resolvers using the XML file syntax
(rather than Java classes implementing <code>MIMEResolver</code>)
are now used even when you run an application with just the Filesystems API in the classpath.
In particular, this makes declarative resolvers be honored in unit tests.
Formerly, declarative resolvers were only loaded when you used <code>org-netbeans-core.jar</code>
and started the full module system.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
The old impl would have interpreted a resolver (with the correct doctype) in any location beneath <code>Services</code>. (Actually
a resolver would offer an <code>InstanceCookie&lt;MIMEResolver&gt;</code> in any location, but outside <code>Services</code> they would not have been
used in MIME resolution.) The new impl expects resolvers to be <code>Services/MIMEResolver/*.xml</code>, as in practice they always
are, and does not bother to verify that the public ID is set to the expected value in the doctype.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The old impl would have inserted the declarative resolvers in default lookup (assuming you were running with the
module system started and thus <code>FolderLookup[Services</code> included). The new impl does not.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>
<a name="layer.bundlevalue">XMLFileSystem supports 'bundlevalue' attribute</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 8 '08; API spec. version: 7.10; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html"><code>XMLFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138076">
#138076</a></em>
<br>
<p>
It is possible to declare a value in <code>layer.xml</code>
files with &lt;attr name="..." bundlevalue="org.yourpkg.Bundle#key"/&gt;.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.urlForArchiveOrDir.archiveOrDirForURL">Added methods to interconvert URLs and traditional path entries</a>
</h3>
<em>Mar 17 '08; API spec. version: 7.8; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59311">
#59311</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added methods <code>urlForArchiveOrDir</code> and <code>archiveOrDirForURL</code>
to <code>FileUtil</code> to make it easier to work with classpaths.
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.addFileChangeListener">Add methods: addFileChangeListener, removeFileChangeListener, refreshAll</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 26 '08; API spec. version: 7.7; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127121">
#127121</a></em>
<br>
Added utility methods:
<ul>
<li>
<code>public static FileObject addFileChangeListener (final FileChangeListener fcl)</code> to receive
<code>FileEvents</code> from <code>FileSystems</code> providing instances
of <code>FileObject</code> convertible to <code>java.io.File</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>public static FileObject removeFileChangeListener (final FileChangeListener fcl)</code> to no longer receive
<code>FileEvents</code> from <code>FileSystems</code> providing instances
of <code>FileObject</code> convertible to <code>java.io.File</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>public static FileObject refreshAll ()</code> to refreshes all <code>FileObject</code> that represent files <code>File.listRoots()</code>
and their children recursively.</li>
</ul>
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.refreshFor">Add method FileUtil.refreshFor(File... files)</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 16 '08; API spec. version: 7.6; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125308">
#125308</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added helper method for refreshing all necessary filesystems, to get
refreshed all instances of <code>FileObject</code> representing
passed <code>files</code> and their children recursively.
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.runAtomicAction">Simple way to run atomic action without having a fileobject</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 8 '08; API spec. version: 7.5; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123899">
#123899</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Simple way to run atomic action without having a fileobject is ensured by
adding two methods: <code>FileUtil.runAtomicAction</code>.
All events about filesystem changes (related to events on all affected instances of <code>FileSystem</code>)
are postponed after the whole code runned in atomic block is executed.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileObject.isLocked">Added method to test if file is locked</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 26 '07; API spec. version: 7.3; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110549">
#110549</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added method <code>isLocked</code> to <code>FileObject</code>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.order">Added methods to order files in a folder</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 16 '07; API spec. version: 7.2; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103187">
#103187</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added methods <code>getOrder</code>, <code>setOrder</code>,
and <code>affectsOrder</code> to <code>FileUtil</code>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="add-content-to-sfs">Allow modules to dynamically add/remove layer content</a>
</h3>
<em>Mar 12 '07; API spec. version: 7.1; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26338">
#26338</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Repository.getDefaultFileSystem's content can now be
influenced by adding own
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html" shape="rect">FileSystem</a>s
into global
<a href="../org-openide-util-lookup/org/openide/util/Lookup.html" shape="rect">Lookup.getDefault()</a>.
This is supposed to work in a standalone mode as well
as inside NetBeans Platform. The tutorial is available
in the <a href="architecture-summary.html#answer-arch-usecases" shape="rect">usecases section</a> of achitecture description.
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<h3>
<a name="createData-and-createFolder-take-File-as-parameter">Added additional methods <code>FileUtil.createData</code>
and <code>FileUtil.createFolder</code> that take <code>java.io.File</code> as a parameter.
</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 7 '06; API spec. version: 7.0; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81527">
#81527</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Added two utility methods for creation of folders and data files
that take <code>java.io.File</code> as a parameter:
<code>public static FileObject createFolder (final File folder) throws IOException</code> and
<code>public static FileObject createData (final File folder) throws IOException</code>
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="method-value-with-map">Semantics of XMLFileSystem's methodvalue extended to
also support methods that do not depend on FileSystems API
at all
</a>
</h3>
<em>May 29 '06; API spec. version: 7.0; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html"><code>XMLFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76692">
#76692</a></em>
<br>
<p>
<a href="org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html" shape="rect">XMLFileSystem</a>'s
methodvalue now supports also <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Map.html" shape="rect">Map</a>
attribute, so one can write factory methods that are completely
independent on filesystems by creating methods like
<code>static Object methodName(Map attrs)</code> or
<code>static Object methodName(Map attrs, String s)</code>.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="added-FileObject-getOutputStream-without-FileLock-parameter">Added additional method <code>FileObject.getOutputStream</code>
that doesn't take <code>FileLock</code> as a parameter.
</a>
</h3>
<em>May 3 '06; API spec. version: 6.6; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
<p>
Although newly added method <code>FileObject.getOutputStream</code>
doesn't take <code>FileLock</code> as a parameter, the implementation
is responsible for taking a lock before <code>OutputStream</code> is
returned and thus <code>FileAlreadyLockedException</code> exception is thrown
when <code>FileObject</code> is already locked.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="semantic-change-in-FileUtil.toFileObject">
The way how <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> is thrown from
<code>FileUtil.toFileObject</code> was changed
</a>
</h3>
<em>Oct 25 '05; API spec. version: 6.3; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
<p>Because of performance reason piece of code
checking whether file was properly normalized is called conditionally just
in case that assertions are enabled. Then
<code>IllegalArgumentException</code> can't be thrown if
assertions are disabled.
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<h3>
<a name="no-static-file-ext-mappings">Removed most static MIME type mappings</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 21 '05; API spec. version: 6.2; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jglick</em>
<br>
<p>
Previously, a number of file extensions were given hardcoded MIME types in the Filesystems
API library (unless overridden by <code>MIMEResolver</code>s or <code>FileSystem</code>
implementations). Most of these static mappings have been removed. The affected mappings
were:
</p>
<table border="1">
<thead>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Extension</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">MIME type</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>au</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>audio/basic</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>class</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>application/octet-stream</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>css</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/css</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>dtd</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/x-dtd</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>exe</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>application/octet-stream</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>htm</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/html</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>html</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/html</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>jar</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>application/x-jar</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>java</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/x-java</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>jsp</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/plain</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>mov</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>video/quicktime</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>pl</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/plain</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>properties</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/plain</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>ps</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>application/postscript</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>ra</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>audio/x-pn-realaudio</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>ram</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>audio/x-pn-realaudio</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>rm</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>audio/x-pn-realaudio</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>rpm</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>audio/x-pn-realaudio</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>sh</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>application/x-shar</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>snd</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>audio/basic</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>tar</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>application/x-tar</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/plain</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>txt</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/plain</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>uu</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>application/octet-stream</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>wav</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>audio/x-wav</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>xsd</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/xml</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>xsl</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>text/xml</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>zip</code></td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><code>application/zip</code></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>
The mapping from <samp>*.xml</samp> to <code>text/xml</code> is retained as this may be
central to processing of XML configuration files on the system file system.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
Clients which were relying on the existence of some of the former mappings may be broken.
(Of course such clients were in violation of the API anyway, since these mappings were never
documented or guaranteed.) For such cases, either avoid relying on MIME type, or add your
own <code>MIMEResolver</code> giving the mapping you want.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="not-final-method-getFileObject">
<code>FileObject.getFileObject </code> made not final.</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 7 '05; API spec. version: 5.3; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51551">
#51551</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Method <code>public final FileObject getFileObject (String relativePath)</code>
in class <code>FileObject</code> isn't final anymore to let more freedom for implemetations.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem">Added new method <code>FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem ()</code>
</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 4 '04; API spec. version: 4.43; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jtulach; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46701">
#46701</a></em>
<br>
<p>
There is a new factory method <code>FileUtil.createMemoryFileSystem ()</code>
to create an empty, writeable instance of a <code>FileSystem</code>
with content completely stored in memory. This filesystem is the
one that is by default returned from <code>Repository.getDefaultFileSystem()</code>
so since now the standalone applications may expect the default file system
to be writable.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal">Added <code>FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal(...)</code>
</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 30 '04; API spec. version: 4.42; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46459">
#46459</a></em>
<br>
Added a new method <code>FileUtil.preventFileChooserSymlinkTraversal(...)</code>
to help work around problems with symbolic links and <code>JFileChooser</code>.
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<a name="issue-37549">Added FileUtil.getFileDisplayName</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 9 '04; API spec. version: 4.39; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37549">
#37549</a></em>
<br>
Get an appropriate display name for a file object.
If the file corresponds to a path on disk, this will be the disk path.
Otherwise the name will mention the filesystem name or archiv name in case
the file comes from archiv and relative path. Relative path will be mentioned
just in case that passed
<code>FileObject</code> isn't root.
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<a name="Repository-deprecations">Almost all methods of Repository were deprecated.</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 1 '04; API spec. version: 4.36; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42273">
#42273</a></em>
<br>
All methods were deprecated except:
<ul>
<li>
<code>getDefault ()</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>getDefaultFileSystem ()</code>
</li>
</ul>
The previous semantics of Repository is broken. Replacement:
<ul>
<li>ClassPath API</li>
<li>
<code>URLMapper</code> for providing <code>FileObjects</code>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>
<a name="issue-43180">Reused DefaultAttributes can use different name than .nbattrs </a>
</h3>
<em>May 28 '04; API spec. version: 4.35; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/DefaultAttributes.html"><code>DefaultAttributes</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=43180">
#43180</a></em>
<br>
Added new constructor to DefaultAttributes that takes file name as next additional parameter.
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<a name="FileUtil-archive-handling">Easier to work with ZIP/JAR archives</a>
</h3>
<em>May 7 '04; API spec. version: 4.48; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jglick</em>
<br>
<p>
There are now various methods in <code>FileUtil</code> that let you
easily convert between archive files themselves and their entries. It
is no longer necessary (or advisable) to explicitly construct
<code>JarFileSystem</code>s to work with archives. A standard
<code>URLMapper</code> implementation is present which handles
<code>jar</code>-protocol URLs correctly.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileUtil.normalizeFile">
<code>FileUtil.normalizeFile</code> added</a>
</h3>
<em>May 7 '04; API spec. version: 4.48; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40410">
#40410</a></em>
<br>
<p>
The method <code>FileUtil.normalizeFile(File)</code> was added as a
refinement of <code>File.getCanonicalFile</code> that does not traverse
symlinks on Unix. Used throughout the NetBeans 4.0 project system.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileObject.setImportant">
<code>FileObject.setImportant</code> deprecated</a>
</h3>
<em>May 7 '04; API spec. version: 4.48; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jglick</em>
<br>
<p>
In NetBeans 3.x, normally &ldquo;compilation&rdquo; or similar build
steps would produce generated files kept in the user&rsquo;s
development folder alongside source files, and picked up as secondary
files by a <code>MultiFileLoader</code>. To ensure that the VCS
integration did not offer to version such files,
<code>FileObject.setImportant</code> could be used to mark them as
disposable.
</p>
<p>
In NetBeans 4.0, such disposable files should not be placed in a source
folder. They should always be built to a separate build directory,
typically defined by the containing project. In this case marking an
individual file as unimportant is unnecessary, since the entire build
tree is known to be disposable. Instead, the project (not data loaders)
can use <code>SharabilityQueryImplementation</code> to indicate which
subtrees contain build products.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
There is no direct replacement. Code using this method should be
re&euml;valuated in the light of other changes in NetBeans 4.0.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="filesystems-deprecations">Deprecation of various Filesystems API methods and classes</a>
</h3>
<em>May 7 '04; API spec. version: 4.48; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html"><code>FileSystem</code></a>; made by: jglick</em>
<br>
<p>
Various parts of the Filesystems API which are no longer useful in
NetBeans 4.0 were deprecated. The assumptions which are now invalid
were:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
The root of a filesystem corresponds to a Java classpath root (if
the appropriate capabilities were set). Now handled by the
Classpath API.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The user explicitly mounts and unmounts filesystems, either to
control the classpath, for version control purposes, or simply to
access some area of the disk; and so filesystem metadata is
relevant to the GUI. Now obsoleted by the Classpath API and
MasterFS.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The IDE internally managed a list of mounted filesystems. Now only
the default system filesystem is &ldquo;mounted&rdquo;; MasterFS
transparently manages all &ldquo;user-space&rdquo; files.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
File objects are persisted by saving a reference to the containing
filesystem, plus the relative path within the filesystem. Now done
using URLs.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Specific deprecations:
</p>
<ol>
<li>
<code>FileSystem.Environment</code> and
<code>EnvironmentNotSupportedException</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>FileSystemCapability</code> (and its constants and subclasses),
<code>FileSystem.getCapability</code> and <code>setCapability</code>,
constructors taking <code>FileSystemCapability</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>FileSystem.PROP_HIDDEN</code>, <code>isHidden</code>, and
<code>setHidden</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>FileSystem.PROP_SYSTEM_NAME</code>, <code>getSystemName</code>,
and <code>setSystemName</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>FileSystem.find</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>FileObject</code> methods such as <code>getPackageName</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>FileSystem.isPersistent</code>
</li>
</ol>
<p>
See also <a href="#Repository-deprecations" shape="rect">deprecations in
<code>Repository</code>
</a>.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
In general, attempts to call the old methods will yield well-defined
but useless results in NetBeans 4.0.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="FileObject.getPath-III">
<code>FileObject.toString()</code> not to be used for specific purposes</a>
</h3>
<em>May 7 '04; API spec. version: 4.48; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27640">
#27640</a></em>
<br>
<p>
<code>FileObject.toString()</code> no longer returns a predictable
value; in particular, it will not be the same as
<code>getPath()</code>. The new value is suitable for logging and
debugging but otherwise cannot be relied upon.
</p>
<p>
There are two benefits to this change:
</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>
The new <code>toString()</code> is more useful for logging than the
previous value. It is no longer necessary to separately include
<code>fileObject.getFileSystem().toString()</code>, which was
cumbersome (and required an extra catch clause).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Clients which were incorrectly using <code>toString()</code> to get
a Java resource path will now be predictably broken, so they can be
fixed to use <code>ClassPath</code>. (The paths would not have been
usable in NetBeans 4.0 anyway.) Just deprecating
<code>toString()</code> was not possible because it overrides a
nondeprecated <code>Object</code> method, and is also inserted into
code by the compiler without emitting any deprecation warning.
</p>
</li>
</ol>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
Older Filesystems API clients which assumed that
<code>FileObject.toString()</code> and
<code>FileObject.getPath()</code> do the same thing will be broken.
</p>
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<h3>
<a name="issue-41506">There should exist just one FileObject for one resource (java.io.File or URL). </a>
</h3>
<em>Apr 13 '04; API spec. version: 4.29; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/URLMapper.html"><code>URLMapper</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41506">
#41506</a></em>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Added method FileUtil.toFileObject as replacement for current method FileUtil.fromFile which was deprecated.</li>
<li>Added method URLMapper.findFileObject as replacement for current method URLMapper.findFileObjects which was deprecated .</li>
</ul>
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<h3>
<a name="issue-37445">Added API for finding file relatively to another file</a>
</h3>
<em>Dec 9 '03; API spec. version: 4.16; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37445">
#37445</a></em>
<br>
<ul>
<li>Added method FileUtil.getRelativePath which gets a relative resource path between folder and fo in folder's tree.</li>
<li>Slightly modified semantic of FileObject.getFileObject in compatible way. This method retrieves file
or folder relative to a current folder, with a given relative path.
</li>
</ul>
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<h3>
<a name="version-3.31"> Method FileObject.isReadOnly was deprecated and replaced with methods canRead, canWrite</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 10 '03; API spec. version: 3.31; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
There was made changes in FileObject class.
Added method: <code>public boolean canRead ()</code>.
Method <code>public boolean isReadOnly ()</code> was deprecated and replaced with
method: <code>public boolean canWrite ()</code>. This change can be considered as compatible.
Newly added methods have default implementation. Also AbstractFileSystem was modified and two
necessary method were added: method: <code>public boolean canRead ()</code> and
method: <code>public boolean canWrite ()</code>.
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<a name="issue-28312">URLMapper.findFileObjects returns empty array if not successful.</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 8 '03; API spec. version: 3.28; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/URLMapper.html"><code>URLMapper</code></a>; made by: rmatous; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28312">
#28312</a></em>
<br>
<code>URLMapper.findFileObjects </code> returns empty array if not successful.
As far there was in documentation written, that null is returned.
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<a name="version-3.16">Added FileUtil.isParentOf</a>
</h3>
<em>Oct 22 '02; API spec. version: 3.16; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: vstejskal</em>
<br>
FileUtil.isParentOf provides simple recursive check whether the FileObject is
underneath some folder.
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<a name="FileObject.getPath-II">Changed javadoc to warn about improper use of methods</a>
</h3>
<em>Oct 1 '02; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: pzavadsky; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27640">
#27640</a> <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27687">
#27687</a></em>
<br>
Changed Javadoc to warn about improper usage
of the <code>FileObject.toString</code> (it was used
as full path format), which is replaced by
<code>FileObject.getPath</code> now. Explained correct purpose
of that method. Also added those warnings to
<code>findResource</code> and <code>findAllResource</code>
of <code>Repository</code> class.
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<a name="getPath">
<code>FileObject.getPath()</code> returns full resource path of file object</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 30 '02; API spec. version: 3.7; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26904">
#26904</a></em>
<br>
It is commonly necessary to find the full resource path of a file object
within its filesystem. Formerly you could do this the safe way by calling
<code>getPackageNameExt('/',&nbsp;'.')</code>, but this is clumsy to
write, potentially inefficient, and is prone to misinterpretation in the
case of files without any extension (or files ending in a period, or
folders with extensions). Calling <code>toString()</code> was more
effective, but this suffered from the problem that for compatibility
reasons, no assurance could be made that it would actually give a
resource path - an old <code>FileObject</code> implementation could
implement it in any way, since it was not originally documented what it
should return. Therefore, the new method <code>getPath()</code> has been
introduced.
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
Existing <code>FileObject</code> implementations ought to override the
new method for efficiency. They should also cease to override
<code>toString</code>. Subclasses of <code>AbstractFileSystem</code> (the
normal case) need not be concerned, since the corresponding
<code>FileObject</code> already implements this method correctly. Code
assuming <code>toString</code> returns a resource path should be changed
to use <code>getPath</code> instead.
<br>
<em><a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/VersioningPolicy#Compatible_change_on_the_trunk">Binary-compatible</a></em>
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<h3>
<a name="repository-not-final">Repository is not final</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 22 '02; API spec. version: 3.3; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a>; made by: jtulach</em>
<br>
Repository is not final anymore, so there can be subclasses of it. But all its methods
has been made final. This was done in order to create Repositories that will follow the
javabeans pattern (have public default constructor).
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<a name="version-2.22">URL -&gt; FileObject mapping implementation</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 6 '02; API spec. version: 2.22; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/URLMapper.html"><code>URLMapper</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Two methods were added <code>public static FileObject[] findFileObjects (URL url)</code> and
<code>public abstract FileObject[] getFileObjects (URL url)</code>.
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
Added abstract method <code>public abstract FileObject[] getFileObjects (URL url)</code>
But there doesn`t exists any known subclass of URLMapper yet. And URLMapper was introduced
recently 2.16 in 3.4 release.
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<a name="URLMapper">Added support for better FileObject-URL mapping</a>
</h3>
<em>Apr 25 '02; API spec. version: 2.16; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/URLMapper.html"><code>URLMapper</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Added new class <code>URLMapper</code>. This class provides basic mapping
for FileObjects from LocalFileSystem, JarFileSystem and MultiFileSystem and is intended
as superclass for individual mappers.
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<a name="FileSystem.refresh">There exists possibility to refresh whole filesystem in one </a>
</h3>
<em>Apr 24 '02; API spec. version: 2.16; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html"><code>FileSystem</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Method: <code>public void FileSystem.refresh (boolean expected))</code> was added.
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<a name="FileSystem.FileChangeListener">FileSystem provides FileChangeListener functionality </a>
</h3>
<em>Mar 11 '02; API spec. version: 2.8; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html"><code>FileSystem</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Method: <code>public final void addFileChangeListener(FileChangeListener fcl)</code> and
<code>public final void removeFileChangeListener(FileChangeListener fcl)</code> was added
to maintain FileChangeListeners that should be notified if some change in FileSystem occures.
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<a name="Repository.FileChangeListener">Repository provides FileChangeListener functionality </a>
</h3>
<em>Mar 11 '02; API spec. version: 2.8; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Method: <code>public final void addFileChangeListener(FileChangeListener fcl)</code> and
<code>public final void removeFileChangeListener(FileChangeListener fcl)</code> was added
to maintain FileChangeListeners that should be notified if some change in Repository occures.
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<a name="FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME">New property FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME was added </a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 17 '02; API spec. version: 2.1; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileSystem.html"><code>FileSystem</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
<code>FileSystem.PROP_DISPLAY_NAME</code> added to
notify a change in the display name.
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<a name="FileEvent.firedFrom">
<code>FileEvent</code>s fired inside atomic actions can report from which atomic actions they were fired</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 21 '01; API spec. version: 1.35; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileEvent.html"><code>FileEvent</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Method <code>boolean FileEvent.firedFrom(FileSystem.AtomicAction run)</code> returns true if this
<code>FileEvent</code> was fired from <code>run</code>.
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<a name="MultiFileSystem.createWritableOnForRename">Method createWritableOnForRename in MultiFileSystem was added</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 30 '01; API spec. version: 1.34; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MultiFileSystem.html"><code>MultiFileSystem</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Protected method <code>createWritableOnForRename</code> in <code>MultiFileSystem</code>
was added. This method has the same meaning as <code>createWritableOn</code> but have two parameters:
oldName, newName. This method is called from <code>MultiFileObject.rename</code>.
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<a name="version-1.33">FileAttributeEvent's methods getName (), getOldValue (), getNewValue () can return null</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 24 '01; API spec. version: 1.33; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileAttributeEvent.html"><code>FileAttributeEvent</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
<code>FileAttributeEvent</code>'s methods <code>getName ()</code>,
<code>getOldValue ()</code>, <code>getNewValue ()</code> can return <code>null</code>.
If <code>getName ()</code> returns null then this means that one of attributes were changed. If
<code>getName ()</code> returns <code>null</code> then there is supposed that all <code>FileAttributeEvent</code>
fields will return <code>null</code> also.
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
Code previously assuming that all <code>FileAttributeEvent</code>
fields were non-null may now be broken, and should check for
<code>null</code>s.
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<a name="version-1.30">Discover which filesystem a FileStateInvalidException is associated with</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 17 '01; API spec. version: 1.30; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileStateInvalidException.html"><code>FileStateInvalidException</code></a>; made by: mschilling</em>
<br>
Added method <code>public String getFileSystemName()</code>. This will
return the name of the filesystem containing the file with invalid
state if such information is available.
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<a name="FileUtil.toFile-fromFile">Find a disk file from a file object or vice-versa</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 31 '01; API spec. version: 1.29; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Added method <code>public File toFile(FileObject)</code>. Finds
appropriate <code>java.io.File</code> to <code>FileObject</code> if
possible. If not possible then <code>null</code> is returned.
Also added method <code>public FileObject[] fromFile(File)</code>. Finds
appropriate <code>FileObject</code>s to <code>java.io.File</code> if
possible. If not possible then empty array is returned. More than one
<code>FileObject</code> may correspond to one <code>java.io.File</code> so
an array is returned.
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<a name="3.803008330124762E30">
Mounting new filesystem no longer works with filesystems providing
<code>WizardDescriptor</code> as bean customizers
</a>
</h3>
<em>Jul 24 '01; made by: jtulach</em>
<br>
<p>
It used to be the case (NB 3.2) that a FileSystem
implementation could in its BeanInfo specify a BeanDescriptor whose
Customizer class extended WizardDescriptor. This would cause the
wizard to be opened when the user tried to mount that filesystem type.
</p>
<p>
The situation now (from 3.3) is that this no longer opens
the customizer and property sheet is presented in the second
step of the mount wizard.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
WizardDescriptor as bean customizer no longer opens the wizard
while mounting. To achieve this use of a special iterator
in Templates/Mount/ is now used (for modules 3.3+).
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<a name="FileObject.createData-without-ext">Create file object without extension</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 27 '01; API spec. version: 1.17; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Added convenience method <code>public FileObject createData(String name)
throws IOException</code>. Creates new data file in this folder with the
specified name. Plainly calls <code>createData(name,"")</code>.
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<a name="FileObject.delete-without-lock">Simplified file object deletion</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 25 '01; API spec. version: 1.15; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a></em>
<br>
Added method <code>public final void delete()</code>.
<code>FileObject</code> is locked before delete and finally this lock is
released.
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<a name="1.4714074904E10">Can mark files as being virtual</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 1 '01; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a></em>
<br>
Added new protected method <code>protected boolean checkVirtual(String
name)</code>.Tests if file really exists or is missing. Some operation on
it may be restricted if returns true.
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<a name="5.8856299599E10">Can mark files as being important</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 1 '01; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a></em>
<br>
Added new protected method <code>protected void markImportant(String name,
boolean important)</code>. Mark the file as being important or
unimportant.
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<a name="4.4502327064E10">Test if a file object is virtual</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 1 '01; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileObject.html"><code>FileObject</code></a></em>
<br>
Added new method <code>public isVirtual</code>. Tests if file really
exists or is missing. Some operation on it may be restricted. Return value
true indicates that the file is missing.
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<a name="34382">Get default <code>Repository</code> from within Filesystems API</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 7 '01; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a></em>
<br>
Added method <code>Repository.getDefault()</code> that allows standalone
tools (using just filesystems library) without access to
<code>TopManager</code> to get the default repository of the system.
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<a name="8.140445082558805E15">Find a MIME type for a file object using resolvers</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 5 '01; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a></em>
<br>
Added new public method <code>getMIMEType(FileObject)</code>. Resolves
MIME type. Registered resolvers are invoked and used to achieve this goal.
Resolvers must subclass <a href="#MIMEResolver" shape="rect">
<code>MIMEResolver</code>
</a>. If
resolvers do not recognize MIME type then MIME type is obtained for a
well-known extension.
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<a name="MIMEResolver">Added <code>MIMEResolver</code>
</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 5 '01; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MIMEResolver.html"><code>MIMEResolver</code></a>; made by: rmatous</em>
<br>
Added new <code>MIMEResolver</code>. This class is intended as superclass
for individual resolvers.
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<a name="1.211769431E9">Create expected file events</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 29 '01; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileEvent.html"><code>FileEvent</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileAttributeEvent.html"><code>FileAttributeEvent</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileRenameEvent.html"><code>FileRenameEvent</code></a></em>
<br>
<code>FileEvent</code> and subclass constructors may take a parameter
<code>boolean expected</code>.
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<a name="not-a-cookie">
<code>Repository</code> is not a cookie</a>
</h3>
<em>Jan 8 '01; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/Repository.html"><code>Repository</code></a>; made by: jtulach</em>
<br>
<code>Repository</code> has been changed not to implement the
<code>Node.Cookie</code> interface. The reason for such change is that
this was the only place where filesystems package depended on another part
in the IDE.
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
Code that used <code>Repository</code> as cookie should be changed to:
<pre xml:space="preserve">
ic = (<span class="type">InstanceCookie</span>)node.getCookie(InstanceCookie.<span class="keyword">class</span>);
<span class="keyword">if</span> (ic != <span class="constant">null</span> &amp;&amp; Repository.<span class="keyword">class</span>.isAssignableFrom(ic.instanceCookie())) {
<span class="comment">// do stuff
</span>}
</pre>
<br>
<em><a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/VersioningPolicy#Compatible_change_on_the_trunk">Binary-compatible</a></em>
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<h3>
<a name="mfs-find-action">
<code>MultiFileSystem</code> finds actions on a set of files specially</a>
</h3>
<em>Dec 6 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MultiFileSystem.html"><code>MultiFileSystem</code></a></em>
<br>
Method: <code>getActions(final Set foSet)</code> was added, which should
provide a Set of <code>FileObject</code>s to run the actions on. This method overloads
default behavior of <code>FileSystem.getActions(final Set foSet)</code>.
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<a name="2.4475904905823E13">Propagate masks flag for multi-filesystems</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 23 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/MultiFileSystem.html"><code>MultiFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jglick</em>
<br>
<code>setPropagateMasks</code> and <code>getPropagateMasks</code> added to
make it easier to compose multi filesystems inside other multi filesystems.
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<a name="370">Added <code>XMLFileSystem</code>
</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 1 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/XMLFileSystem.html"><code>XMLFileSystem</code></a></em>
<br>
Added new <code>XMLFileSystem</code> that reads content of special XML
file and represents it as filesystem. This filesystem is used by modules
to provide their own content of menus, toolbars, templates, component
palette, etc.
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<a name="9.329227231022436E15">MIME lookup by extension made friendlier for C/C++</a>
</h3>
<em>Sep 11 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a>; made by: jglick</em>
<br>
MIME types no longer include C/C++ extensions by default; and file
extension lookups give preference to case-sensitive matches but also work
with case-insensitive matches by default.
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<a name="2.92751569363687E14">Customizable references to known file objects</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 22 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a></em>
<br>
Added new protected method
<code>Reference&nbsp;createReference(FileObject&nbsp;fo)</code>. This
method returns <code>WeakReference</code> of <code>obj</code>
(<code>new&nbsp;WeakReference&nbsp;(fo)</code>). If you subclass from
<code>AbstractFileSystem</code>, you can overload this method to return
another type of <code>Reference</code>.
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<a name="4.080841976251E12">Find references to file objects by name</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 22 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a></em>
<br>
Added new final protected method
<code>Reference&nbsp;findReference(String&nbsp;resourceName)</code>. This
method finds the reference associated with <code>resourceName</code>.
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<a name="8.4004415344141967E18">Find known file objects starting from some point in the tree</a>
</h3>
<em>Aug 10 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a></em>
<br>
Added new protected method <code>existingFileObjects(FileObject)</code>.
Can be used to find all <code>FileObject</code>s in this filesystem with
the given predecessor.
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<a name="repository-adapter-added">
<code>RepositoryAdapter</code> added</a>
</h3>
<em>Jun 25 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/RepositoryAdapter.html"><code>RepositoryAdapter</code></a>; made by: jglick</em>
<br>
Added to make it easier to use <code>RepositoryListener</code>.
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<a name="1.22460676003798656E17">Filesystem implementation methods protected not public</a>
</h3>
<em>Mar 27 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/LocalFileSystem.html"><code>LocalFileSystem</code></a> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/JarFileSystem.html"><code>JarFileSystem</code></a>; made by: jtulach</em>
<br>
<p>
Many methods in <code>LocalFileSystem</code> and
<code>JarFileSystem</code> were declared public though they should never
have been called directly. (They were implementing interface methods
that would only be called from within the class itself.) These methods
are:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<code>children(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>createData(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>createFolder(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>delete(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>folder(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>inputStream(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>lastModified(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>lock(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>markUnimportant(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>mimeType(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>outputStream(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>readOnly(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>rename(String,String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>size(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>unlock(String)</code>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Also in <code>JarFileSystem</code> only:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<code>readAttribute(String,String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>writeAttribute(String,String,Object)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>attributes(String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>renameAttributes(String,String)</code>
</li>
<li>
<code>deleteAttributes(String)</code>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
All these methods are now protected.
</p>
<p>
In general, outside code should use the proper outer API to access
filesystems (<code>FileSystem</code> and <code>FileObject</code> and
some helper classes), only directly calling methods of implementation
classes where this is required (constructors or
<code>setRootDirectory</code>). As a matter of style, it is recommended
that calling code declare variables to be of the abstract type (e.g.
<code>FileSystem</code>) to clarify that only generally available
methods will be called.
</p>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
First broken, later restored binary compatibility in trunk and
<code>boston</code>. Any outside code calling them as public will break;
however such code is definitely erroneous and should be rewritten.
<br>
<em><a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/VersioningPolicy#Compatible_change_on_the_trunk">Binary-compatible</a></em>
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<h3>
<a name="393216">
<code>AbstractFileSystem.refreshRoot</code> was of the wrong type</a>
</h3>
<em>Feb 24 '00; affected top-level classes: <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/AbstractFileSystem.html"><code>AbstractFileSystem</code></a></em>
<br>
<code>refreshRoot</code> now returns <code>FileObject</code> rather than
the subclass <code>AbstractFileObject</code>. In fact the returned object
currently is always an <code>AbstractFileObject</code> but this subclass
is package-private so it was an API bug to mention it from an accessible
method.
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
First broken, later restored binary compatibility in trunk and
<code>boston</code>. The change should be source-code compatible, and is
made to be binary compatible as well.
<hr style="width:50%">
<h2>
<a name="uncategorized-api">Uncategorized changes</a>
</h2>
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<h3>
<a name="issue-19443-2">API separation, phase II</a>
</h3>
<em>Nov 1 '02; API spec. version: 3.17; affected top-level classes: <code>org.openide.actions.AbstractCompileAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.BuildAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.BuildAllAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.CleanAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.CleanAllAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.CompileAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.CompileAllAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.ExecuteAction</code> <code>org.openide.cookies.ArgumentsCookie</code> <code>org.openide.cookies.CompilerCookie</code> <code>org.openide.cookies.ExecCookie</code> <a href="./org/openide/filesystems/FileUtil.html"><code>FileUtil</code></a> <code>org.openide.loaders.CompilerSupport</code> <code>org.openide.loaders.ExecutionSupport</code> <code>org.openide.windows.IOProvider</code> <code>org.openide.windows.InputOutput</code> <code>org.openide.windows.OutputEvent</code> <code>org.openide.windows.OutputListener</code> <code>org.openide.windows.OutputWriter</code>; affected packages: <code>org.openide.compiler</code> <code>org.openide.execution</code>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19443">
#19443</a></em>
<br>
<p>
Three sections of the Open APIs were split into new autoload modules.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
The module <code>org.openide.compiler</code> (version 1.0) contains
the Compiler API and some other classes directly related to it.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The module <code>org.openide.execution</code> (version 1.0) contains
the Execution API and some other classes directly related to it.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The module <code>org.openide.io</code> (version 1.0) contains
<code>InputOutput</code> and related classes (formerly part of the
Window System API, and still physically in the
<code>org.openide.windows</code> package).
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
New modules wishing to use these APIs must declare regular module
dependencies on them. Future changes in these APIs will be documented
separately.
</p>
<p>
Furthermore, modules wishing to use certain services must
<code>OpenIDE-Module-Require</code> them if appropriate:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
<code>org.openide.compiler.CompilationEngine</code>, in order to
call <code>CompilationEngine.getDefault()</code>, or safely use
<code>AbstractCompileAction</code> or one of its subclasses, or
call <code>CompilerJob.start()</code>, or use
<code>BeanInfo</code>s for Compiler API classes, etc.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<code>org.openide.execution.ExecutionEngine</code>, in order to
call <code>ExecutionEngine.getDefault()</code>, or safely use
<code>ExecuteAction</code>, or call
<code>Executor.execute(...)</code>, or use <code>BeanInfo</code>s
for Execution API classes, etc.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
<code>org.openide.windows.IOProvider</code>, in order to call
<code>IOProvider.getDefault()</code>.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Other minor changes:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
Registration of URL stream handler factories using
<code>NbfsStreamHandlerFactory.register(...)</code> is deprecated.
Simply create an instance of <code>URLStreamHandlerFactory</code>
and add it to Lookup instead.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
The method <code>FileUtil.nbfsURLStreamHandler</code> was added,
but is not intended for use by modules.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
All uses of <code>ExecInfo</code> are deprecated as they abuse the
distinction between Filesystems and the user classpath. Use and
override only <code>Executor.execute(DataObject)</code>. Similarly,
<code>ThreadExecutor</code> is deprecated for the time being
because it suffers from similar problems.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Direct use of <code>NbfsURLConnection</code> is deprecated in favor
of the more general <code>URLMapper</code> from the Filesystems
API.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Package dependencies on
<code>org.netbeans.lib.terminalemulator</code> must be replaced
with module dependencies on a new autoload module
<code>org.netbeans.lib.terminalemulator</code> (version 1.0).
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Several static convenience methods have been added to
<code>AbstractCompileAction</code>. Of most interest is
<code>prepareJobFor</code>. Module code should no longer assume
that <code>DataFolder</code> has a <code>CompilerCookie</code>
which recursively compiles the folder and subfolders (according to
depth); while it is still true, for reasons of compatibility, new
code should use <code>prepareJobFor</code> to create a compiler job
from a folder.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
<p>
Module authors using the now-separated APIs will need to adjust their
compilation classpaths to include the new JAR files. Modules wishing to
use recent APIs and declaring a current openide specification version
dependency will need to explicitly declare dependencies on these new
APIs if there are any.
</p>
<p>
For compatibility, modules with no declared Open APIs dependency, or
declared on a version prior to 3.17, will have their dependencies
automatically refined as if to include the declarations:
</p>
<pre xml:space="preserve">
OpenIDE-Module-Module-Dependencies: org.openide.compiler &gt; 1.0,
org.openide.execution &gt; 1.0, org.openide.io &gt; 1.0
OpenIDE-Module-Requires: org.openide.compiler.CompilationEngine,
org.openide.execution.ExecutionEngine, org.openide.windows.IOProvider
</pre>
<p>
And any package dependencies from old modules on
<code>org.netbeans.lib.terminalemulator</code> will be converted to
module dependencies.
</p>
<br>
<em><a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/VersioningPolicy#Compatible_change_on_the_trunk">Binary-compatible</a></em>
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<h3>
<a name="issue-19443-1">API separation, phase I</a>
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<em>Oct 15 '02; API spec. version: 3.14; affected top-level classes: <code>org.openide.DialogDisplayer</code> <code>org.openide.LifecycleManager</code> <code>org.openide.Places</code> <code>org.openide.TopManager</code> <code>org.openide.actions.AddWatchAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.BuildProjectAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.CompileProjectAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.DebugProjectAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.ExecuteProjectAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.FinishDebuggerAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.GoAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.GoToCursorAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.HelpAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.OpenProjectAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.SaveProjectAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.StartDebuggerAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.StepOutAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.ToggleBreakpointAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.TraceIntoAction</code> <code>org.openide.actions.TraceOverAction</code> <code>org.openide.awt.HtmlBrowser</code> <code>org.openide.awt.StatusDisplayer</code> <code>org.openide.cookies.DebuggerCookie</code> <code>org.openide.cookies.ElementCookie</code> <code>org.openide.cookies.ProjectCookie</code> <code>org.openide.cookies.SourceCookie</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.ChoicePropertyEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.DirectoryOnlyEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.ElementFormatEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.ExternalCompiler</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.FileEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.FileOnlyEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.IconEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.IdentifierArrayEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.MethodParameterArrayEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.ModifierEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.StringArrayCustomEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.StringArrayCustomizable</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.StringArrayEditor</code> <code>org.openide.explorer.propertysheet.editors.TypeEditor</code> <code>org.openide.loaders.DataObjectFilter</code> <code>org.openide.loaders.ExecSupport</code> <code>org.openide.loaders.ExecutionSupport</code> <code>org.openide.loaders.ExtensionListEditor</code> <code>org.openide.loaders.RepositoryNodeFactory</code> <code>org.openide.modules.IllegalModuleException</code> <code>org.openide.modules.ManifestSection</code> <code>org.openide.modules.ModuleDescription</code> <code>org.openide.nodes.NodeOperation</code> <code>org.openide.options.ControlPanel</code> <code>org.openide.util.actions.ProjectSensitiveAction</code> <code>org.openide.windows.IOProvider</code>; affected packages: <code>org.openide.debugger</code> <code>org.openide.src</code> <code>org.openide.src.nodes</code>; made by: jglick; issues: <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19443">
#19443</a> <a href="https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20898">
#20898</a></em>
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<p>
Many classes were moved to a separate module,
<samp>openide-deprecated.jar</samp>, not available to modules by
default. Uses of these classes in modules should be cleaned up whenever
possible.
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Additionally, the entire contents of <code>org.openide.src.*</code> and
<code>org.openide.src.nodes.*</code>, as well as
<code>org.openide.cookies.SourceCookie</code> and some associated
property editors, were moved to a separate module.
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The most common apparent symptom for module authors will be the absence
of <code>TopManager</code>. Most methods in this class have been
replaced by newer utility classes in a straightforward manner. See the
Upgrade Guide.
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<strong>Compatibility: </strong>
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The deprecated classes continue to be available in the module
<code>org.openide.deprecated</code> which you may depend on it you
cannot remove uses of the deprecated APIs. In order for
<code>TopManager.getDefault()</code> to work, you must also require the
token <code>org.openide.TopManager</code>, which is provided by an
unspecified module. The deprecated API module and its implementation
module are autoloads, meaning they will not be loaded unless some
module still requires them.
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Similarly, the Java Hierarchy API was moved to the module
<code>org.openide.src</code> which you should depend on in order to use
this API.
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For compatibility, the above three dependencies are added to your module
<em>automatically</em> in case it either requests no specific API
version at all, or requests an API version prior to 3.14. Modules
requesting APIs 3.14 or higher must declare these dependencies
explicitly if they in fact need them.
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<em><a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/VersioningPolicy#Compatible_change_on_the_trunk">Binary-compatible</a></em>
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