Java: check symbolic link file existence

Question

We talk about java 1.6 here. Since symoblic link is not yet supported, how can examine the existence of them.

1: tell wheather the link file itself exists (return true even if the link is broken)

2: follow the link and tell wheather underlying file exists.

Is there really no way to realize this except JNI?

Answer 1

looks that way for now... unless you go with openjdk http://openjdk.java.net/projects/nio/javadoc/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributes.html#isSymbolicLink()