Java's I/O streams provide standardized ways to read and write data. Any object representing a mutable data source in Java exposes methods for reading and writing its data as a stream.

You can use the Java JDOM classes to read the XML data including the element's attribute property. You use these properties to determine the different types of XML nodes you have in your folder.

Some file operations on Windows have been changed for the sake of safety and consistency in the upcoming Java update.