With the recent public beta release of J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4 (code-named Merlin), Sun has once again unleashed scores of new classes, features, and interfaces on unsuspecting ...

In "Read and write data with Java's I/O streams," we started to explore the input/output (I/O) classes, interfaces, and operations provided by the Java platform. Now, we'll continue our exploration of ...

Java NIO — the New Input/Output API package– was introduced with J2SE 1.4 in 2002. Java NIO’s purpose was to improve the programming of I/O-intensive chores on the Java platform. A decade later, many ...