Java I/O, NIO and NIO.2 Jeff Friesen
Publisher: Apress

2008 JavaOneSM Conference | java.sun.com/javaone |. Java NIO published August 2002. Asynchronous I/O, and the many other import java.nio.file.*;. Learn about the new File System API,. NIO is meant to complement the existing Standard I/O (in java.io package), not NIO data transfer is through the so-called buffers implemented in java.nio. Additionally, the course covers File I/O (NIO.2). My webservers use the usual Java I/O with thread per connection mechanism. LINK TO JAVA REFERENCES & RESOURCES. With NPTL on, Sun and Blackwidow JVM 1.4.2 scaled easily to 5000+ threads. Regular I/O with the new NPTL library in Linux outperforms NIO. Lots of XML, XQuery and Java, not so much.