Chapter 7. File Access and Display: Let's Use the NetBeans Platform to Work with Files!

This chapter illustrates concepts and APIs used to manage, manipulate, and represent data. Upon completion, you will be able to handle and display all forms of data in a professional way. The NetBeans Platform uses the same approach for its internal data, such as the data in the System Filesystem.

Overview

The NetBeans Platform provides comprehensive solutions for creating, managing, manipulating, and presenting data. Solutions are provided by the File Systems, Data Systems, and Nodes APIs.

Each of these APIs can be found on its own abstraction layer. In combination with specific data outside a NetBeans Platform application, this system is divided into four layers, ...

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