High-level Java filesystem content manipulation : old style vs. jcr ?

Question

Hi, I was wondering,

what is the best way to choose for managing text/binary content on filesystem? Typically when building web applications with a lot of multimedia binaries and other various text based content stored on filesystem, JDK 6 java.io is still too much low level.

• It will change with java 7 as you can see here thanks to new java.nio.file.* package

But until java 7 is out and implemented by IDEs etc., I really don't know what to use for this, except of org.apache.commons.io. I tried few samples with JackRabbit, but I'm not sure if it is a good idea for the purpose I mentioned at the beginning. Is it possible to manage all that filesystem binary/text content by JackRabbit ? Put it all into nodes and properties instead of directories. Does it bring advantages ?

Answer 1

It's not really clear what you're looking for, but Google's Guava libraries have an io package, and in particular, a Files class full of static methods for file manipulation.

It's not a content repository system, but may provide enough functionality for what you're trying to do.