Java NIO Tutorial

Java Nio  

1	Java NIO Tutorial
2	Java NIO Overview
3	Java NIO Channel
4	Java NIO Buffer
5	Java NIO Scatter/gather
6	Java NIO Channel to channel transfers
7	Java NIO Selector
8	Java NIO FileChannel
9	Java NIO Socketchannel
10	Java NIO Serversocketchannel
11	Java NIO Datagramchannel
12	Java NIO Pipe
13	Java NIO vs. IO

Java NIO Tutorial
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Java NIO (New io) is a alternative IO API for Java (from Java 1.4), meaning alternative to the standard Java IO Andjava N Etworking API ' s. Java NIO offers a different of working with IO than the standard IO API ' s.

Java Nio:channels and buffers

The standard IO API is the streams and character streams with byte. In NIO channels and buffers. Data is all read from a channel into a buffer, or written from a buffer to a channel.

Java nio:non-blocking IO

Java NIO enables do non-blocking IO. For instance, a thread can ask a channel to read data into a buffer. While the channel reads data to the buffer, the thread can do something else. Once data is read to the buffer, the thread can then continue processing it. The same is true for writing data to channels.

Java nio:selectors

Java NIO contains the concept of "selectors". A Selector is an object that can monitor multiple channels for events (Like:connection opened, data arrived etc). Thus, a single thread can monitor multiple channels for data.

How all this works was explained in more detail with the next text in this series-the Java NIO Overview.

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Java NIO Tutorial