Where does javafx.io.Storage resources end up?

Question

My first post here ...
Well I have made an Desktop application where I use javafx.io.Storage and javafx.io.Resurse. First I thought that I would find the file in my directory tree of my JavaFx desktop app, but it did not. I am using Mac os X and I have tried to look everywhere on my disk and I can not find anything on my disk that has have the same file name as my Storage:
m_entry = Storage {
   source: "bldconfig.xml"
}I can load and save data to the file, that is no problem. But it would be interesting to know where the data is ending up if I ever need to delete the file or the data. It would be good to know this for all platforms actually.
Thank you in advance

Answer 1

I played a bit with this API when JavaFX 1.2 was out. I found out where the data was stored, but for Windows XP... I used Sysinternals' ProcMon to watch hard disk activity and spot where data was written... Perhaps you have a similar tool for Mac? Or can deduct destination from my findings...
Here is the code I used:
// Introduced in JavaFX 1.2
import javafx.data.Pair;
import javafx.util.Properties;
import javafx.io.Storage;
import javafx.io.Resource;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
def FILE_NAME = "properties.java.txt";
def propFile = Storage { source: "properties.jfx.txt" }
var pairSequence: Pair[] =
     Pair { name: "WWW", value: "HTML" }
     Pair { name: "Sun", value: "JavaFX" }
     Pair { name: "Adobe", value: "Flex" }
     Pair { name: "Microsoft", value: "Silverlight" }
     Pair { name: "WWW", value: "Ajax" }
     Pair { name: "French", value: "Àvéc dès âccênts àrbîtrâïrês !" }
     Pair { name: "Français", value: "Yes, I am..." }
     Pair { name: "A=B", value: "true" }
     Pair { name: "Foo Bar", value: "false" }
     Pair { name: "#Foo", value: "bar" }
// Note that WWW is twice in the sequence!
var propsOut: Properties = Properties {};
function PutPair(props: Properties, pair: Pair)
     props.put(pair.name, pair.value);
for (pair in pairSequence)
     print("{pair.name} ");
     PutPair(propsOut, pair);
println("");
// Writes information in source's path
var fosJ: FileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(FILE_NAME);
propsOut.store(fosJ);
fosJ.close();
// Writes information in C:\Documents and Settings\PhiLho\Sun\JavaFX\Deployment\storage\muffin\
// with a 78e9b9eb-1b6c06c9 (for exampe) file holding the data and a 78e9b9eb-1b6c06c9.muf
// pointing where to extract temporarily the file (in the place where the .class files are).
// Obviously, path is for Windows XP, will vary for other systems
var fosJFX = propFile.resource.openOutputStream(true);
propsOut.store(fosJFX);
fosJFX.close();
// We loose one WWW
var propsIn: Properties = Properties {};
var fisJ: FileInputStream = new FileInputStream(FILE_NAME);
propsIn.load(fisJ);
fisJ.close();
println("{propsIn.get("Sun")} / {propsIn.get("WWW")} / {propsIn.get("French")} / {propsIn.get("Français")} / {propsIn.get("A=B")} / {propsIn.get("#Foo")}");
var fisJFX = propFile.resource.openInputStream();
propsIn.load(fisJFX);
fisJFX.close();
println("{propsIn.get("Sun")} / {propsIn.get("WWW")} / {propsIn.get("French")} / {propsIn.get("Français")} / {propsIn.get("A=B")} / {propsIn.get("#Foo")}");Not rocket science, but interesting... :-)