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We all are familiar with reading/writing file in a synchronous way. In Java 7 a new API was added to read/write the contents of the file asynchronously. The API is AsynchronousFileChannel. In this example lets look at how to read the contents of the file asynchronously. There are two approaches to read the contents asynchronously: [...]

ByteBuffer API has been in Java since 1.4. The name itself suggests that these contain bytes of data. The data to be stored in the buffer can be Integer (int, long), Characters (char), Floating value (double), all these are converted into bytes before being stored in the buffer array. ByteBuffer can be of two types- [...]