Java is the key here. I need to be able to delete files but users expect to be able to \"undelete\" from the recycle bin. As far as I can tell this isn\'t
I have found this RFE on suns site: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=5080625
This tells me there is not a native java way to do this. and as @John Topley just posted the only solution is a JNI call.