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NX:Using RandomAccessFile and FileChannel

 
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I am using RandomAccessFile to read my DB file. I noticed is some other
posts people using RandomAccessFile to read the header and then retrieving
a FileChannel to read in the data.
What is the advantage of the FileChannel? Can't you just use RandomAccessFile for reading the entire file?
 
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Hello Bill,
There is no requirement in the assignment dictating the choice of RAF v/s filechannels. As a matter of fact, you can do the whole IO using "old" style Random Access Files all-together (that is what I did). The NIO (new IO) package/capability introduced in jdk 1.4 + has improved the IO speed and allowed for bi-directional read/write channels etc. I am staying away from it until I finish the entire assignment and then may be work on introducing file-channels (the keywords being "may be"). It depends on what you can get more comfortable with in a reasonable amount of time.
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Bharat
 
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