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Reputation: 37034

Is there difference between pipes from NIO and IO

I revise knowledge about I/O in java. Now I an introduce with pipes. I noticed that java.io.* have pipe mechanism and java.nio.* have similar mechanism.

I am reading some tutorials about these things. My current vision - pipes from NIO and pipes from I/O looks same. But I understand that it is strange to have duplicate things in JDK. Thus I think that I am wrong.

Can you clarify difference?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 277

Answers (1)

sina72
sina72

Reputation: 5101

IO is stream-oriented, NIO is buffer-oriented.

IO streams are blocking, NIO has non-blocking mode.

In this Java NIO Tutorial (by Jakob Jenkov) you find background and examples. It also helps you finding the best approach on your case.

Upvotes: 2

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