where to get a smart FileFilter?

Question

I'm trying to find an implementation of java.io.FileFilter which understands patterns like these: "**/*.xml", "src/**/*.java", etc. Do you know any package that can provide such a filter (commons-io doesn't do this, or I can't understand how).

Answer 1

I don't think FileFilter does help you here. It is used for evaluating files in one directory when passed to listFiles(...). You seem to want to search through sub directories.

Answer 2

You might want to check out DirectoryScanner from the Ant project. It does not implement FileFilter but it does recognize those types of patterns.

Answer 3

This notation is used in ant. So your best bet will be ant.jar