Java tutorial
import java.io.File; import java.util.StringTokenizer; /* Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.util.PropertyUtil Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. */ public class Main { /** Remove a directory and all of its contents. The results of executing File.delete() on a File object that represents a directory seems to be platform dependent. This method removes the directory and all of its contents. @return true if the complete directory was removed, false if it could not be. If false is returned then some of the files in the directory may have been removed. */ public static boolean removeDirectory(File directory) { // System.out.println("removeDirectory " + directory); if (directory == null) return false; if (!directory.exists()) return true; if (!directory.isDirectory()) return false; String[] list = directory.list(); // Some JVMs return null for File.list() when the // directory is empty. if (list != null) { for (int i = 0; i < list.length; i++) { File entry = new File(directory, list[i]); // System.out.println("\tremoving entry " + entry); if (entry.isDirectory()) { if (!removeDirectory(entry)) return false; } else { if (!entry.delete()) return false; } } } return directory.delete(); } }