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Monday Feb 02, 2009
NIO and JDK7
You may be familiar with the NIO (New I/O) api. This API, introduced in release 1.4, extended the previous I/O package and included support for pattern matching with Regular Expressions, Buffer support for primitive types, Character-set encoders and decoders, and Channels — an abstraction for devices capable of performing I/O operations (to name just some of the functionality).You may be familiar with NIO, but have you heard of NIO.2? NIO.2, part of the JDK7 effort, completes some of the work begun in the NIO api and goes much further: It includes an improved filesystem interface, multicast support, asynchronous I/O support, and complete socket-channel functionality (which was begun in release 1.4).
Thanks to OpenJDK, you can download and play with NIO.2 now. The NIO Project Page contains links to the latest binaries, javadoc, JSR 203, and links to bloggers involved in this effort.
-- Sharon Zakhour
Posted at 08:24AM Feb 02, 2009 by The Java Tutorial Team | Comments[2]
When will NIO.2 be integrated?
Posted by Mikael Gueck on February 02, 2009 at 01:22 PM PST #
The socket-channel updates and multicast support have been in jdk7 for some time. The file system and asynchronous I/O parts will be integrated soon, any day now. The best place to ask for more specific information is the nio-discuss mailing list.
Posted by Alan on February 04, 2009 at 12:32 AM PST #