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On 26 May 2008 08:42:28 GMT, "Kenneth P. Turvey"
<kt-> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :

>Shouldn't there be a system independent way to use the system trash can
>when deleting a file?

not every OS supports it. So it can't very well be a standard class.
You can however, implement it pretty easily with Windows using JNI.

I would write it for you for $50.
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Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
> Not every OS supports a windowing system either, and yet we have Swing.
> This is an idiom that is common to 99% of the installed desktop systems.
> It should be supported.

Can you have a certified Java SE implementation without AWT and Swing
that works at least if the windowing software is installed (it does
not have to) ?

Arne