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…