Java help - file reading

I need some help here Must write a Java program that allows the user to browse to a specific location (standard method for this is present in Java - so thats not a problem), but then, i need the program to recognise the file's extension and depending on it being XML, fasta or a few other extensions, perform a different set of tasks on the file. I intend to write separate classes for each set of operations, to be called upon when the file is identified, but how can i do it? Is there a way i can save or display the loaded files name as a string so i can compare extensions, or any other way to have java check the format?

tia,

Tim

http://schmidt.devlib.org/ffident/index.html

FIle identification, tells you the meta data of the file, such as content type, etc.

You are lucky. In C++ you would have to do it all by hand.

Not if there was an open source library readily available!