Conclusion Scripts commonly need to create files for temporary use and Java now provides several easy approaches for ensuring automatic deletion of files meant to be temporary in nature and to be ...

Both Groovy and Java SE 7 provide improvements for file management in Java as I discussed in posts here , here , here , and ...

Java has no notion of a "current working directory" per se IIRC - user.dir is not always set to the directory the user started the app from. You can find that however - search in Google groups.