Java NIO

[sarah Marsh]

Hello,

Is Java NIO a popular mechanism nowadays?
Any other mechanism better than this one?

Thanks!

[Joe Ess]

sarah Marsh wrote:
Is Java NIO a popular mechanism nowadays?

I'm not sure how one would determine if it were popular or not. Is it used directly more than the standard java.io classes? Probably not. But the standard java.io classes use it under the covers so if one is using standard java.io, one is also using java.nio, so that would make it very popular.

sarah Marsh wrote:
Any other mechanism better than this one?

How would you define "better"? If you need the functionality that NIO provides (non-blocking sockets, for instance), I don't think there are many alternatives.

[sarah Marsh]

Thank you, Joe.

Is NIO necessary? IO in the newest JDK can handle what NIO need to be used. Am I correct?

[Rob Spoor]

The "old" IO package cannot handle non-blocking reads - you'll need the "new" IO (that's where nio came from) package for that.

[Joe Ess]

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