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Does anyone know what happened to the path.exists() API method in the latest Java 7 API? I cannot find the change in the change logs, and between b123 and b130, the method has been removed from the API.I see that there is a static Files.exists method but I'm not sure if that is the replacement o开发者_开发知识库r not.

Is anyone following the Java 7 work close enough to know how this should be handled?

Thanks for any help.

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Files.exists

Look in the Files class for the static methods exists() and notExists(). Both take a Path.

I guess they decided it made more sense as a static rather than instance method.