Matching strings to wildcards pattern is useful and often needed. Using regular expression may help, but is not top performance solution. Wildcard class matches strings to wildcard patterns using * and ? characters, and that does very fast and good!
Wildcard class supports path matching wildcards. It matches path against pattern using *, ? and ** wildcards. Both path and the pattern are tokenized on path separators (\ and /). '**' represents deep tree wildcard, as in Ant.
Wildcard matching is used on many places in Jodd. As the general rule-of-the-thumb, everywhere where file paths are involved in scanning and matching, the matchPath() method is used, otherwise, the classic path().