Java Clipboard Copy File

package com.test;

import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.datatransfer.Transferable;
import java.awt.datatransfer.UnsupportedFlavorException;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;

public class MyApplet extends Applet {
 
 /**
  * 
  */
 private static final long serialVersionUID = 3253065390977690287L;
 Clipboard clipboard = getToolkit ().getSystemClipboard ();
 
 public MyApplet() {
  setLayout(new BoxLayout(this, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
  
  JButton btnNewButton = new JButton("New button");
  btnNewButton.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
   @Override
   public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent arg0) {
    getContentFromClipboard();
   }
  });
  add(btnNewButton);
 }
 
 private void getContentFromClipboard() {
  for(DataFlavor dfv : clipboard.getAvailableDataFlavors()) {
   System.out.println(dfv.getHumanPresentableName() + "\t" + dfv.getMimeType() + "\t" + dfv.getRepresentationClass());
   Transferable transferable = clipboard.getContents(this);
   System.out.println(transferable.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor));
   if(transferable.isDataFlavorSupported(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor)) {
    try {
     Object object = transferable.getTransferData(dfv);
     List stuff = new ArrayList();
     stuff = (List) object;
     for (File file : stuff) {
      System.out.println(file.getAbsolutePath());
      // Do whatever you want with the file
      // ...
     }
    } catch (UnsupportedFlavorException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
    }
   }
  }
 }

}

The tricky part is casting java.util.Arrays$ArrayList (object) to List (stuff).