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 ...

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 ...

The old adage in the modern datacenter is that compute is free, but data movement is very, very expensive. We would add that data storage is also nearly free, although at the scale that hyperscalers ...

Buffered I/O: as with C's Standard Library, IO Channels provide user-side buffering, which minimizes the number of system call invocations and ensures that I/O is performed in optimally sized units.