C H A P T E R 9
The Asynchronous Channel API
We've finally reached the most powerful feature introduced in NIO.2, the asynchronous channel API. As you'll see in this chapter, the asynchronous I/O (AIO) Java 7 journey starts in the java.nio.channels.AsynchronousChannel interface, which extends a channel with asynchronous I/O operations support. This interface is implemented by three classes: AsynchronousFileChannel, AsynchronousSocketChannel, and AsynchronousServerSocketChannel. There is a fourth class, AsynchronousDatagramChannel, which was added in the Java 7 beta release and then removed in the Java 7 final release; at this writing, this ...
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