the documentation could do with an explanation of mime typing best practice. i'm create a patch once i'm sure i understand it...
please jump in with corrections - robert --- A. from the basic user perspective, the quick start way to mime type is to 1. Use MimeTypesFactory#createMimeTypes() to create a MimeTypes with the default tika configuration 2. if you want just name based heuristics call getMimeType passing a file, url or name 3. if you want full typing heuristics including magic call getMimeType passing an input stream B. from an advanced user perspective, the heuristics can be customised by 1.passing a different configuration file to MimeTypesFactory#createMimeTypes(XYZ) 2 & 3 as above C. developers of new detectors should take a look at the detector interface and then customise as above if B or C then the tika team would be very interested in contributions ---
