Java I/O, NIO and NIO.2 is a power-packed book that is an accelerated guide and reference on buffers, files, sockets, datagrams, and pipe channels as found in the Java I/O, NIO, and NIO.2 reference implementations. In this book, you'll also learn how and when to use selectors, regular expressions, including patterns, matchers and more. You'll learn how to work with Charsets, formatters and scanners. You'll - all in all - learn how to use and apply NIO, NIO.2 and the enhancements available.

After reading and using this book, you'll gain the accelerated knowledge and skill level to really build applications with efficient data access, especially for today's cloud computing streaming data needs.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started with I/O

Chapter 1: I/O Basics and APIs

Part II: Classic I/O APIs

Chapter 2: File

Chapter 3: Random Access File

Chapter 4: Streams

Chapter 5: Writers and Readers

Part III: New I/O APIs

Chapter 6: Buffers

Chapter 7: Channels

Chapter 8: Selectors

Chapter 9: Regular Expressions

Chapter 10: Charsets

Chapter 11: Formatter

Part IV: More New I/O APIs

Chapter 12: Improved File System Interface

Chapter 13: Asynchronous I/O

Chapter 14: Completion of Socket Channel Functionality

Part V: Appendices

Appendix A: Answers to Exercises

Appendix B: Sockets and Network Interface

About the Author

Jeff Friesen is a freelance tutor and software developer with an emphasis on Java (and now Android). In addition to authoring Learn Java for Android Development and co-authoring Android Recipes -- Jeff has written numerous articles on Java and other technologies for JavaWorld (a href="http://www.JavaWorld.com"JavaWorld.com/a), informIT (a href="http://www.InformIT.com"InformIT.com/a), a href="http://www.java.net"Java.net/a, and DevSource (a href="http://www.DevSource.com"DevSource.com/a). Jeff can be contacted via his website at a href="http://www.tutortutor.ca"TutorTutor.ca/a.