How JFileChooser finds the Desktop and can browse CIFS(SMB) in windows.

Question

Hello.
I'm currently using serveral methods from FileSystemView used by JFileChooser to detect if a File is a system root, a floppy, or to find the "My Documents" folder under windows.
JFileChooser however is also able to provide a link to the desktop. How do I get that location from Java?
Further more. JFileChooser is able to browse and use resources located on the network using CIFS(SMB). I've searched through JFileChoosers source. But I can't figure out how it does this.
I'm currently writing a Folder synchronization app. As you can see in the screenshot ( http://users.telenet.be/greenhouse/Screenshot-7.png ) I'm trying to integrate the location browser (Look based on the GTK file browser) more into windows. I want my users to be able to browse CIFS just like in the JFileChooser. How do I do this?
The reason I'm writing my own browser is because the GTK one provided in Java is more then lacking. And I can provide browsing for remote resources more easily (like SFTP and SCP)
In short:
*JFileChooser however is also able to provide a link to the desktop. How do I get that location from Java?
*JFileChooser browses and uses CIFS in windows. How do I do this (without a 3th party library) the same way as JFileChooser does it?
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Answer 1

JFileChooser fr = new javax.swing.JFileChooser();
        FileSystemView fw=fr.getFileSystemView();
        defaultfolder = fw.getDefaultDirectory().getPath();
       String desktopfolder;
        if(System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows")){
            for(File tmp:fw.getRoots()){
                dekstopfolder = tmp.getPath();
        }That piece of code gives the path to the desktop folder in Windows. In linux it returns root. (getRoots();) How horrible.
I hope I'm going about this the wrong way. Because this would be an ugly Java API.