Design and realization of Java based remote file management system JIANGYing ,XIU Gui_hua (Shenyang Institute of Chemical Tecnology , Shenyang 110142, China) Abstract:A set of Java socket based application programming interface API) about the remote file system is designed to realize the(remote file management system's running on different operating systems, and a client/server structure based remote file managementsystem is realized with graphic interface using that set of API. This set of API is similar to the local file operation classes of the Sun JDK.Using this set of API the programmers can realize a remote file management system satisfying their requirement conveniently and rapidly. Key words:Java; socket; JDK; file management system