New I/O Package
JDK 1.4 introduced a package called java.nio. “Nio” stands for “new I/O” (so the JDK 1.5 I/O improvements must be “even newer than new I/O”). The java.nio package and subpackages support four important features not previously well-provisioned in Java:
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A non-blocking I/O facility for writing scalable servers
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A file interface that supports locks and memory mapping
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A pattern-matching facility based on Perl-style regular expressions
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Character-set encoders and decoders
Instead of building these on top of streams or file descriptors, these features are implemented using two new concepts: buffers and channels.
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