Java NIO — the New Input/Output API package– was introduced with J2SE 1.4 in 2002. Java NIO’s purpose was to improve the programming of I/O-intensive chores on the Java platform. A decade later, many ...

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Buffered I/O: as with C's Standard Library, IO Channels provide user-side buffering, which minimizes the number of system call invocations and ensures that I/O is performed in optimally sized units.