It would be really useful to have a standard
implementation class for the java.io.FilenameFilter 
interface, providing standard wildcard support.

This should work with the wildcard conventions 
that apply to the underlying OS. The lack of such 
a class is a barrier to deploy certain java 
applications to more than one OS.
(Review ID: 33201)
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Create a standard implementation class for the
java.io.FilenameFilter interface, that adds a 
setWildcardPath method, for example:

   setWildcardPath("/usr*/*/*.bar");

And therefore an <accept> call like:

   accept(dir, "file.bar")

where "dir" was referring to, say, "/usr/foo", 
would return true.
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The Swing FileChooser has something like this, though it can only be driven
from the UI.  We could consider adding this in a future release.
--   xxxxx@xxxxx   6/10/1998
The last time there was any activity on this bug was May 2004.  No new SDN votes, SDN comments, and we have not received any customer feedback in the 9 years since the bug was opened.  

Closing this issue as "will not fix".
Posted Date : 2007-08-08 03:58:46.0

You can find a BSD-licensed implementation here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jclf