How to change the file's permission and last modified in Java?

Question

To my knowledge, Java's File class does not support to change the file's permission and last modified date. Is there any proper way to do this in a cross-platform style?

Answer 1

I'm looking at the Java 6 documentation, and there is a setLastModified() method, as well as setReadable(...) and setWritable(...) and setExecutable(...) methods (all in the java.io.File class). So yes, there is a way...