This week's book giveaway is in the Agile and other Processes forum. We're giving away four copies of The Mikado Method and have Ola Ellnestam and Daniel Brolund on-line! See this thread for details.
Author/s : Ron Hitchens Publisher : O'Reilly Category :Advanced Java Review by : Valentin Crettaz Rating : 8 horseshoes </pre> The New Input/Output (NIO) packages of the Java 2 platform introduce several long awaited advanced I/O features for developing high-performance and large-scale Java applications. It is not unsafe to say that these new capabilities bridge the gap between Java and other natively compiled languages.
The author starts by giving some insights on some system-level I/O services before delving into how low-level features are abstracted by NIO in a portable way. He assumes the reader to be fairly comfortable with Java and common I/O concepts, that is, the book should not be seen as a tutorial on Java I/O.
The book dedicates one chapter to each new feature, namely low-level buffer management, scalable networking and file channels, multiplexed I/O using selectors, and character set encoding/decoding. As last, the author presented a Regular Expressions API that brings Perl-like capabilities into the Java language, as a feature that is often used when performing I/O operations, although it is not strictly related to I/O.
This is a first book on Java NIO, which is a well-written resource and contains a several concrete and ready-to-use examples illustrating various key concepts of the NIO packages.
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