Swing’s Drop and Drop API can be used for customizing Drag and Drop support. For most of the commonly used components like Text Components, Color Chooser, File Chooser etc, the dropping support is enabled by default. We have to explicitly enable the dragging support by calling the setDragEnabled() method. Before getting into customizing them, let …
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Locking Files using Java
File Locking can be achieved in java by making use of the New I/O API (nio). Before the advent of New I/O API, there was no direct support in Java for locking a file. It is important to understand that File locking is hugely dependent on the native operating system on which the program is …