The standard Java file chooser has been replaced by an enhanced file chooser which offers several advanced features:
The file chooser can be used on your local system as well as on the remote system. In the latter case the file system information is received as result of fast internal UNICOREpro jobs.
File system information will be cached which is in particular useful for remote file choosing. To update the cached information press the "Refresh" button.
The file chooser separates the file system structure from the file information table. In contrast to the default Java chooser file information about size, type, and modification time is available.
The file chooser supports a preemptive mode that similar to the Windows Explorer fetches directory information in advance. This feature caused some performance trouble on UNIX Systems with very large directory structures or slow file systems (e.g. AFS), where the file chooser operations were slown down essentially. For this reason the preemptive mode is configurable in the "System Settings" panel of the "User Defaults" menu.