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Working with the Path Class Metadate File Attributes Symbolic Links Files and Directories The FileVisitor Class: Recursive Operations Watch Service API Two Security Models SPI Package Mapping java.io.file Functionality to java.nio.file General Methods

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Anghel Leonard is a senior Java developer with more than 12 years of experience in Java SE, Java EE, and related frameworks. He wrote and published more than 30 articles about Java technologies and more than 200 tips and tricks for JavaBoutique, O Reilly, DevX, Developer and InformIT. In addition, he wrote two books about XML and Java (one for beginners and one for advanced developers) for Albastra, a Romanian publisher, and three books for Packt: Jboss Tools 3 Developer Guide, JSF 2.0 Cookbook and JSF 2.0 Cookbook LITE. Currently, he´s developing web applications using the latest Java technologies on the market (EJB 3.0, CDI, Spring, JSF, Struts, Hibernate and so on). In the past two years, he´s focused on developing rich Internet applications for geographic information systems.

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