How to access a filesystem in java?

Question

I need to iterate a folder on local machine from the server to parse some files. Is it real? If it's true, please, advise me how to do it.

Answer 1

I prefer Commons VFS. It can handle local filesystems, SFTP and many others. All with the same code - you just change paths to files.

FileSystemManager fsManager = VFS.getManager();
FileObject directory = fsManager.resolveFile("path/to/dir");
FileObject[] files = directory.findFiles(fileSelector);

for (FileObject file : files) {
    // do something
}

Answer 2

You can also have a glance at the new package nio.2 in Java 7, with tutorial here.

Many new and powerful things.