I needed these for a recent project, bits and bytes constants.

Convert a password returned by JPasswordField::getPassword() into a String.

A utility class that gets the MD5 hash of an input stream. Also includes a method for converting byte array to hex-formatted string.

Read a eight bytes in little endian order from the given InputStream and create a long out of them.

Checks to see if a file or folder exists
The fFile variable determines whether you're
looking for a File (True) or Folder(False)
The strName variable holds the fully qualified
path you're looking For

this function returns the aggregated size
of all files in a directory and its subdirectories

Retrieve information about a file

Check the attributes of a file or folde

I came across this in the Java Docs, in my ever growing attempt to learn Java. I needed to implement custom listener events.

If you have ever written a website or java application where people paste stuff in from Word, you are likely to have hit the problem of Word using high ascii chars for "open quotes", "close quotes", reg symbol, etc...

This java class (with a single static method) can replace the most prevalent of these with normal ascii values

Hope it helps someone...