Get the metadata of a file

Question

It is possible to know the metadata of a file in java? and if it is, How to get the metadata of a file in java?

Answer 1

FITS is a command line app that bundles many tools that can identify and characterize files (extract metadata). It also has a java API

• http://code.google.com/p/fits/
• http://code.google.com/p/fits/wiki/developer_documentation

Also there are numerous identification and characterization tools that can do similar tasks. Apache Tika, Pronom Droid, Jhove, etc.