Of course you could. It was an awful api: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html

Of course you could. It was an awful api: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/io/File.html This is why people used Apache FileUtils: http://commons.apache.org/io/apidocs/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.html http://commons.apache.org/io/apidocs/org/apache/commons/io/F... On java 7 a better api is only part of the standard library.