The following is a modified snippet from a draft of The Well-Grounded Java Developer. It gives you a quick taster of how much easier it is to manipulate files in Java 7 than in previous versions. By ...

I have touched on several subjects in individual posts prior to this one that now come together in this single post. These subjects include use of File.deleteOnExit() in Groovy, creation of temporary ...

I've got a problem that I'm stuck on. How do I programmatically get the executing jar file's absolute path? I'm trying to look for a folder that is relative to the jar file's directory but I'm having ...