Here you can find the source of getUserPreferences()
public static Preferences getUserPreferences()
//package com.java2s; /*//from ww w.j a v a 2 s .c om * Phon - An open source tool for research in phonology. * Copyright (C) 2005 - 2015, Gregory Hedlund <ghedlund@mun.ca> and Yvan Rose <yrose@mun.ca> * Dept of Linguistics, Memorial University <https://phon.ca> * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.util.prefs.Preferences; public class Main { /** * Application prefs root node */ public final static String PREF_ROOT = "/ca/phon/util"; /** * Returns the root user preferences node. * * @return a {@link Preferences} instance */ public static Preferences getUserPreferences() { Preferences retVal = Preferences.userRoot().node(PREF_ROOT); return retVal; } }