File type Checker General ------- FileTypeChecker is a tool to determine the actual file type. FileTypeChecker does this by looking into the file headers and footers. Running FileTypeChecker ---------------------- -make sure a Java Virtual Machine is installed (minimum JRE 1.4.2) -unzip filetypechecker -double click on FileTypeChecker.jar -select document.xml for the xml file -select the file you want to determine the type For Developers: -------------- place filetypechecker.jar in the classpath filetypechecker.jar would try to pick the document.xml from the classpath, else specify the xml by calling setXmlFilePath(); DocumentTypeChecker checker = new DocumentTypeChecker(); checker.setXmlFilePath("C:/document.xml");//Use this method if you encounter errors while running Document document = checker.getDocumentType(file); document object returns the properties of the file. Contact ------- The project homepage is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filetypechecker http://filetypechecker.sourceforge.net Changes in 1.0 -------------- Added Support for microsoft 2007 documents. Changes in 0.2 -------------- Added GUI support. Added Command Support. Using javax Parser Now (earlier used apache crimpson)