JShortcut Home Page

A Java Native Interface (JNI) to Windows Shortcuts

This page contains information, documentation, and downloads for JShortcut. JShortcut is a Java package with a native library that allows a Java application to create and read shortcuts and Start Menu items on Windows. As of version 0.4, it is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, so is freely redistributable in both binary and source form.

See the README file for features and installation instructions.

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News

• January 1, 2011: as of September 2010, the latest version of JShortcut is hosted on github.
• November 15, 2003: v0.4 released. A couple more locations for getDirectory, plus JShortcut is now licensed under LGPL rather than GPL.
• September 12, 2003: v0.3 released. This version uses the native platform encoding, so properly reads filenames that include extended characters. You can now read and create shortcuts in languages other than English.
• December 30, 2002: v0.2 released. This version can load existing shortcuts and menu items. Java programs can now read shortcuts as well as create them.
• November 21, 2002: v0.1 released.