Re: Request Urgent Help - open directory to read contents, with Active Directory running

From:

Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:39:03 -0800

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Daku wrote:

Could some Java guru please kindly help ? I am porting
an application from Linux to Windows (with Active
Directory running), and getting into very odd problems.

....

Any hints suggestions would be of immense help.

Lew has dealt with a lot of the issues. I have a few supplementary comments.

The Java I/O library *tries* to give you useful hints about what
happened during your calls to it, through return values and exceptions.
You seem to be firmly ignoring those hints.

Your code is configuration dependent because it does different things
based on whether a directory exists or not. You need to rethink that to
make the code portable. If you really want to create c:/Temp if it does
not exist, you need to change the createNewFile to mkDir.

However, many users would not like an application creating a new
directory at the top level. If you just want to put some files in a
suitable temporary directory, I suggest using one of the createTempFile
methods. The I/O library handles the problem of locating the
conventional temporary file directory for you.

Patricia