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

This function tries to locate a file in a give folder (either single level, or in any sub folder). Returns the relative file and path, or FALSE if not found. Skips over "." and "..".

If you only want to compare yyyy-mm-dd you can use the java.sql.Date class, the valueOf method does the trick. It's perfectly safe as the sql Date class is a subclass of the Date class.

Check out the docs here for more detail.

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This is a very convenient way to remove all doubles from a List in Java. The only prerequisite is that the elements in the list have proper equals and hashCode methods.

It work by using the constructor of a Set that takes a Collection as an argument.

I poured the snippet in a little program so can run it straight away.

A GroovyClassLoader demonstration. The given domain is a german water flow meter system; I think, you shouldn't be able to understand the domain, but you should be able to understand, how to load a Groovy class in Java via a GroovyClassLoader.