Alternative to JFileChooser

Question

I\'ve a request to make some changes to a little applet that currently use a JFileChooser.
One of the main complaints is that the file chooser is a pain in the ass to us

Answer 1

As @htw said use FileDialog if the look and feel is your main concern. By using FileDialog be aware that there a lots of convenience methods that you won't be able to use...

I used VFSJFileChooser few times. It doesn't suffer from the JFileChooser bugs(slow to load because of zip files, windows only), but the interface is not "native".