Utility Classes

jMCS provides several services and utilities freely available to you, detailed below.

BrowserLauncher

This singleton can be used to open a URL in the user's default web browser.

JnlpStarter

This singleton can be used to start a Java !WebStart application at a given URL.

RecentFilesManager

This singleton can be used to manage recently opened files. Any added file is automatically displayed (and remembered) in the corresponding 'File' menu.

XslTransform

This singleton can be used to apply an XSLT script (stored in a Jar) to an XML document (stored in a String).

JAXB

JAXB let developers map Java classes to XML representations. jMCS provide a wrapper around it to simplify its usage:

// Start JAXB with package path
final JAXBFactory jaxbFactory = JAXBFactory.getInstance("com.example.file.model");

// Try to load file.xml resource
final URL fileURL = ResourceUtils.getResource("com/example/data/file.xml");
YourDataModelClass yourDataModelObject;
try {
    yourDataModelObject = (YourDataModelClass) JAXBUtils.loadObject(fileURL, jaxbFactory);
} catch (IOException ioe) {
    throw new IllegalStateException("Load failure on " + fileURL, ioe);
}

// TODO : manipulate your data model here...

// Serialize data model to XML
final StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(4096); // 4K buffer
JAXBUtils.saveObject(stringWriter, yourDataModelObject, jaxbFactory);

CollectionUtils

This static class provides various facilities to deal with Java collections, such as:

• human readable toString() implementations;
• null-aware isEmpty() checkers.

CommandLineUtils

This static class provides methods to launch a command-line path application in background.

FileUtils

This static class provides numerous methods to efficiently handle files:

• manipulate pathes/extensions;
• create/read/write/copy/zip/checksum files.

ImageUtils

This static class provides helpers to load ImageIcon from Jars and scale them.

IntrospectionUtils

This static class provides numerous helpers to handle most common task with introspection load ImageIcon from Jars and scale them.

MCSExceptionHandler

This class provides Java Thread uncaught exception handlers

NumberUtils

This class mainly handles double number comparisons with absolute error.

ResourceUtils

This static class facilitates the work to get resources files from inside Jars.

StringUtils

This static class facilitate provides numerous helpers to deal with String, such as trimming, accent, …

UrlUtils

This static class deals with URL validation, encoding, and so on.

Concurrency, Runner and Timer

TBD