IO HowTo

• General
  chevron_rightRedirect output(stdout/stderr) to a frame
  chevron_rightRedirect printStackTrace() to a String
  chevron_rightRedirect to NULL device
  
• Devices (printer, drives, ...)
  chevron_rightPrint a text file using the javax.print API
  chevron_rightPrint a String using the javax.print API
  chevron_rightPrint text to a printer easily
  chevron_rightPrint without a Dialog
  chevron_rightInitialize and write to a serial port
  chevron_rightOpen or close a CD/DVD drive
  chevron_rightGet the volume label
  chevron_rightDetect the storage device type
  chevron_rightTurn on MQ Debug mode
  
• Console IO
  chevron_rightGet faster console output (System.out.println() replacement)
  chevron_rightSimple input from the keyboard
  chevron_rightOutput french character to the console
  chevron_rightClear the console and control attributes
  chevron_rightEasy keyboard input (JDK1.5)
  chevron_rightForce keyboard input in CAPS LOCK on
  chevron_rightAutomatic conversion of System.out output
  
• Execute an external program
  chevron_rightExecute an external program and capture the output
  chevron_rightLaunch the application associated with a file extension
  chevron_rightLaunch an application from another application
  chevron_rightStart the default browser from an application
  chevron_rightExecute a Windows Shortcut (.lnk)
  chevron_rightCreate a file association with a Java program
  chevron_rightCapture the output from a VBS
  chevron_rightGet a return code from a VBS
  chevron_rightExecute a CMD file stored in a JAR
  chevron_rightOpen the default file explorer
  
• File
  chevron_rightRead the content of a file
  chevron_rightRead a text file from a Jar
  chevron_rightRead a text file from the internet
  chevron_rightExtract a file from a Jar
  chevron_rightRead a data file with floats
  chevron_rightWrite to the end of a file
  chevron_rightWrite "real" ascii file
  chevron_rightCopy a file
  chevron_rightUse a "log file"
  chevron_rightDelete files with a certain extension
  chevron_rightInsert a line in a file
  chevron_rightRead a file into a variable in one shot
  chevron_rightSerialize an object to a file
  chevron_rightRedirect stdout to a file
  chevron_rightGet the "last modified" date from a file
  chevron_rightGet the file creation time
  chevron_rightCheck if a file exists
  chevron_rightDetect file (or folder) modification
  chevron_rightFile/directory polling to detect change
  chevron_rightDetect file (or folder) modification (Java 7)
  chevron_rightGet the current directory
  chevron_rightGet the "root" of an application
  chevron_rightGet the content of a directory with a Filter
  chevron_rightGet the content of a directory with subdirectories
  chevron_rightGet directory content faster with many files
  chevron_rightMake a directory
  chevron_rightCreate a fixed-length file
  chevron_rightDelete a non-empty directory
  chevron_rightCreate a temporary file
  chevron_rightGet the default character set of the JVM
  chevron_rightParse a pathname
  chevron_rightHandle CSV files
  chevron_rightConvert OEM (DOS) file to Ansi (Windows)
  chevron_rightClose a stream in a try/catch block
  chevron_rightRename a file extension
  chevron_rightRemove a file extension
  chevron_rightRemove HTML tags from a file to extract only the TEXT
  chevron_rightGet the Mime Type from a File
  chevron_rightSort a directory listing (based on the last modified timestamp)
  chevron_rightSort files by the extension
  chevron_rightFilter a directory listing by date
  chevron_rightConvert wildcard to a regex expression
  chevron_rightShorten a long path
  chevron_rightForce a valid Windows filename
  chevron_rightCheck if filename is valid
  chevron_rightDump a file to a HEX file
  chevron_rightList all files in the classpath or in a Jar
  chevron_rightHandle UTF8 file with BOM
  chevron_rightTouch a file
  chevron_rightHandle Windows file attribute
  chevron_rightClean up a directory
  chevron_rightForce End-of-line delimiter as LF only
  chevron_rightCheck if a directory is empty
  chevron_rightDelete a file
  
• Excel XLS
  chevron_rightHandle Excel files
  chevron_rightCreate an Excel file (the easy way)
  chevron_rightDetect if a XLS Excel file contains a macro (using POI)
  
• PDF
  chevron_rightCreate or process PDF files
  chevron_rightiText - Create a PDF
  chevron_rightSplit a PDF file (using iText)
  chevron_rightConcatenate PDF files (using iText)
  chevron_rightConvert TIF to PDF
  chevron_rightConvert HTML to PDF using iText
  chevron_rightConvert HTML to PDF using YAHP
  chevron_rightConvert PNG/JPG/GIF to PDF using iText
  chevron_rightPrint a PDF
  chevron_rightExtract text from a PDF using Apache Tika
  
• ZIP
  chevron_rightCreate a compressed (ZIP) file
  chevron_rightDisplay compressed (ZIP) file content
  chevron_rightExpand the compressed (ZIP) file
  
• Audio
  chevron_rightEmit a beep
  chevron_rightEmit a tone
  chevron_rightPlay an audio file from an application
  chevron_rightProduce special sound effect
  chevron_rightUse the Java Speech API (JSPAPI)
  chevron_rightPlay a Windows sound
  chevron_rightProcess MP3 tags
  

IO HowTo