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What is a FileDataSource?

Created May 4, 2012

John Zukowski

A FileDataSource is part of the JavaBeans Activation Framework, package javax.activation. It represents a DataSource associated with a file, that relies on a FileTypeMap to associate mime types with file extensions. They can be used to send file attachments: 

MimeBodyPart messageBodyPart = 
  new MimeBodyPart();
DataSource source = 
  new FileDataSource(fileAttachment);
messageBodyPart.setDataHandler(
  new DataHandler(source));
messageBodyPart.setFileName(
  filenameString);

The other type of predefined DataSource in the Activation Framework is the URLDataSource.