In the previous post Java SE 7 Brings Better File Handling than Ever to Groovy , I discussed the ability to use Java 7's NIO.2 implementation to discover a wide set of attributes, characteristics ...

* 1. List the entire contents of a directory and put all the directories in it into an ArrayDeque. * 2. Descend into each directory and accomplish (1) for each directory. * 3. Upon listing the last ...

Both Groovy and Java SE 7 provide improvements for file management in Java as I discussed in posts here, here, here, and here.However, when a particular Java application is not able to yet use ...

Java 8 introduced a new list() method in java.nio.file.Files. The list method returns a lazily populated Stream of entries in the directory. As such, it is more efficient for processing large folders.