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How to use SeekableByteChannel interface for Random Access to Files (RAF)

By Andrei Ciobanu December 9, 2013Java, NIO1 Comment

RAFs, Random Access Files permit asynchronous (random) access to a file contents. To access a file randomly we open the file, seek a particular position, and then we read or…

Writing a simple file/folder monitor using the Watch Service API

By Andrei Ciobanu December 6, 2013Java, NIO5 Comments

The Watch Service was introduced in Java 7 as a "thread-safe" service responsible for watching objects for changes. The most popular use of this API would be to use it…

Recursive folder walks using NIO.2 API

By Andrei Ciobanu December 6, 2013Java, NIO, UncategorizedNo Comments

FileVisitor Interface The FileVisitor interface allows us to recursively traverse file structures - folders, sub-folders and files. Every method of this interface can return 4 possible results (instances of the…

File Attributes int the NIO.2 API

By Andrei Ciobanu December 5, 2013Java, NIO, Uncategorized1 Comment

Introduction With NIO.2 we can easily determine the attributes of a file by using the java.nio.file.attribute package. Various file systems have different properties associated with files but NIO.2 groups the…

The NIO.2 Path Class

By Andrei Ciobanu December 5, 2013Java, NIONo Comments

The Path class is considered to be the entry point for exploring the NIO.2 API. Basically every I/O operation in NIO.2 will exploit the facilities offered by this class. Path…