NIO introduced in J2SE 1.4 provide new features and improved performance in the areas of buffer management, scalable network and file I/O, character-set support, and regular-expression matching. The NIO APIs supplement the I/O facilities in the java.io package. See the New I/O APIs.

Articles

(Sep 2006) NIO and SSL
(Oct 2003) The easy way to non-blocked sockets - Use JSSE and NIO for a quick way to implement non-blocking communications.
(Apr 2003) Use select for high-speed networking - New Input/Output libraries speed up your server.
(Oct 2002) Top Ten New Things You Can Do with NIO
(Oct 2002) Magic with Merlin: Character sets -Three classes in the java.nio.charset package help convert between character sets when moving legacy applications to the Java platform.
(Sep 2002) Introducing Nonblocking Sockets
(Sep 2002) Turning streams inside out, Part 2: Optimizing internal Java I/O - Replacing the byte-array and piped streams.
(Mar 2002) Merlin brings nonblocking I/O to the Java platform - New addition greatly reduces thread overhead.

Books

Java NIO by Ron Hitchens, O'Reilly, August 2002. Review. Book support site.

Related

Discussion about NIO

Topic NIO . { Edit | Ref-By | Printable | Diffs r2 < r1 | More }

java.net RSS

Revision r2 - 10 Aug 2004 - 03:27:19 - Main.sullis	TWiki (TM) Copyright © 1999-2003 by Peter Thoeny ALL RIGHTS RESERVED