Java NIO: Regular Expressions and High-Performance I/O

Many serious Java programmers, especially enterprise Java programmers, consider the new I/O API—called NIO for New Input/Output—the most important feature in the 1.4 version of the Java 2 Standard Edition. The NIO package includes many things that have been missing from previous editions of Java that are critical to writing high-performance, large-scale applications: improvements in the areas of buffer management, scalable network and file I/O, character-set support, and regular expression ...