Top Ten New Things You Can Do with NIO (O'Reilly) [LWN.net]

Ron Hitchens writes about Java's NIO on O'Reilly's OnJava.com. "New I/O? Why do we need a new I/O? What's wrong with the old I/O? There's nothing wrong with the classes in the java.io package; they work just dandy -- for what they do. But it turns out there are quite a lot of things the traditional Java I/O model can't handle. Things like non-blocking modes, file locks, readiness selection, scatter/gather, and so on. These capabilities are widely available on most serious operating systems today (and a few comical ones, as well). They're not just nice to have; they're essential for building high-volume, scalable, robust applications, especially in the enterprise arena."

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