How to display system icon for a file in SWT?

You need a method like the following, which is a 99% copy from http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet156.java?view=co :

static ImageData convertToSWT(BufferedImage bufferedImage) {
    if (bufferedImage.getColorModel() instanceof DirectColorModel) {
        DirectColorModel colorModel = (DirectColorModel)bufferedImage.getColorModel();
        PaletteData palette = new PaletteData(colorModel.getRedMask(), colorModel.getGreenMask(), colorModel.getBlueMask());
        ImageData data = new ImageData(bufferedImage.getWidth(), bufferedImage.getHeight(), colorModel.getPixelSize(), palette);
        for (int y = 0; y < data.height; y++) {
            for (int x = 0; x < data.width; x++) {
                int rgb = bufferedImage.getRGB(x, y);
                int pixel = palette.getPixel(new RGB((rgb >> 16) & 0xFF, (rgb >> 8) & 0xFF, rgb & 0xFF)); 
                data.setPixel(x, y, pixel);
                if (colorModel.hasAlpha()) {
                    data.setAlpha(x, y, (rgb >> 24) & 0xFF);
                }
            }
        }
        return data;        
    } else if (bufferedImage.getColorModel() instanceof IndexColorModel) {
        IndexColorModel colorModel = (IndexColorModel)bufferedImage.getColorModel();
        int size = colorModel.getMapSize();
        byte[] reds = new byte[size];
        byte[] greens = new byte[size];
        byte[] blues = new byte[size];
        colorModel.getReds(reds);
        colorModel.getGreens(greens);
        colorModel.getBlues(blues);
        RGB[] rgbs = new RGB[size];
        for (int i = 0; i < rgbs.length; i++) {
            rgbs[i] = new RGB(reds[i] & 0xFF, greens[i] & 0xFF, blues[i] & 0xFF);
        }
        PaletteData palette = new PaletteData(rgbs);
        ImageData data = new ImageData(bufferedImage.getWidth(), bufferedImage.getHeight(), colorModel.getPixelSize(), palette);
        data.transparentPixel = colorModel.getTransparentPixel();
        WritableRaster raster = bufferedImage.getRaster();
        int[] pixelArray = new int[1];
        for (int y = 0; y < data.height; y++) {
            for (int x = 0; x < data.width; x++) {
                raster.getPixel(x, y, pixelArray);
                data.setPixel(x, y, pixelArray[0]);
            }
        }
        return data;
    }
    return null;
}

Then you can call it like:

static Image getImage(File file) {
    ImageIcon systemIcon = (ImageIcon) FileSystemView.getFileSystemView().getSystemIcon(file);
    java.awt.Image image = systemIcon.getImage();
    if (image instanceof BufferedImage) {
        return new Image(display, convertToSWT((BufferedImage)image));
    }
    int width = image.getWidth(null);
    int height = image.getHeight(null);
    BufferedImage bufferedImage = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
    Graphics2D g2d = bufferedImage.createGraphics();
    g2d.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
    g2d.dispose();
    return new Image(display, convertToSWT(bufferedImage));
}

For files, you can use org.eclipse.swt.program.Program to obtain an icon (with correct set transparency) for a given file ending:

File file=...
String fileEnding = file.getName().substring(file.getName().lastIndexOf('.'));
ImageData iconData=Program.findProgram(fileEnding ).getImageData();
Image icon= new Image(Display.getCurrent(), iconData);

For folders, you might consider just using a static icon.