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- …
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Implementing WatchService API in Java 7 to monitor the directory changes
In Java 7 there were quite a lot of new things added to the File NIO package (java.nio)- there was a new java.nio.file package and java.nio.file.attribute package. Main highlights of the java.nio.file package are the following classes: Path: Its an object used to locate a file or directory in the file system. The value contained …