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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 ...

Java was created over 25 years ago, and it is still one of the most popular programming languages. In this article, I will present an overview of how Java has grown to today's complex system and why ...