Chapter 2. Locating Files and Directories Using Paths

In this chapter, we will cover the following:

• Creating a Path object

• Interoperability between java.io.File and java.nio.file.Files

• Converting a relative path into an absolute path

• Removing redundancies by normalizing a path

• Combining paths using path resolution

• Creating a path between two locations

• Converting between path types

• Determining whether two paths are equivalent

• Managing symbolic links