Java's I/O streams provide standardized ways to read and write data. Any object representing a mutable data source in Java exposes methods for reading and writing its data as a stream.

You can use the Java JDOM classes to read the XML data including the element's attribute property. You use these properties to determine the different types of XML nodes you have in your folder.

What's the best way to do it? First of all, I'm fairly new to Java so I began with the obvious FileInputStream class. I was hoping that there would a specialized java class for delimited files but ...

Before I start to write one, does anyone know of an existing java library for reading keepass 2.x database files?