NIO - java new io2 since jdk7

new feature compared with old java.io package
* real support file operation across platforms
* real support for symbolic links
* more support on file metadata , such as permission, owner and other security options
   go to below to see some code example How to Explore File Attributes Using 'Files' class:
        http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/fileAttr.html
             Snapshot:

package com.pc.tmp;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
public class FileOwnerInJdk7 {

	/**
	 * @param args
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		String str = "F:/workspace/ws/tmp/pom.xml";
		Path path = Paths.get(str);
		try {
			System.out.println("The owner of file " + str + " is " + Files.getOwner(path));
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}


Output: The owner of file F:/workspace/ws/tmp/pom.xml is \Everyone (Well-known group)


BasicFileAttributes attr = Files.readAttributes(file, BasicFileAttributes.class);
System.out.println("creationTime: " + attr.creationTime());
System.out.println("lastAccessTime: " + attr.lastAccessTime());
System.out.println("lastModifiedTime: " + attr.lastModifiedTime());
System.out.println("isDirectory: " + attr.isDirectory());System.out.println("isOther: " + attr.isOther());
System.out.println("isRegularFile: " + attr.isRegularFile());
System.out.println("isSymbolicLink: " + attr.isSymbolicLink());
System.out.println("size: " + attr.size());

* can help you recursive a file tree and respond appropriately if there are circular symbolic links 


Introduction by Sun in 2008 JavaOne:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNRS1ssLPdQ



More ref links about non-blocking:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8777743/making-sense-of-javas-non-blocking-i-o
http://rox-xmlrpc.sourceforge.net/niotut/

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-nio/nio-vs-io.html

Demo with diagram :   http://kylinsoong.iteye.com/blog/1294482 (but the example has buffer exceed problem... ByteBuffer problem.)

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/nio/example/

引用这里的oracle 官方例子，Ping.java, 测试以下服务器（80 baidu.com google.com 212.111.12.0 www.kuanzone.com sina.com 163.com cntv.com hsbc.com icbc.com abc.com huawei.com narutom.com)

www.kuanzone.com/59.42.214.242:80 : 36ms
google.com/74.125.128.100:80 : 47ms
baidu.com/220.181.111.85:80 : 70ms

第一个是局域网内的网址。测试好几次，google挺强大，网速都快过baidu.....?!   +_+

Findings:

boolean connected = sc.connect(t.address);

PLEASE NOTE before "connect()", if "t.address" is a string (hostname not IP) , it will doDNS querywhich is inblocking  mode and when the host (e.g. com.ab) can't be resolved to IP address then cause unhandled exception in that app.

About ByteBuffer's method  (can refer to http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-nio/buffers.html) capacity, limit , position

flip() - reverse the buffer before read

compact() - Put the unread elements to the beginning                       clear() - clear all elements, you may lose the unread data

rewind() - for re-read purpose

mark() - set a marker in the buffer                                                           reset() - go back to the marker

An example codes:

public static final void nioCopy(ReadableByteChannel input, WritableByteChannel output) throws IOException {
    ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);
    while (input.read(buffer) != -1) {
        //Flip buffer
        buffer.flip();
        //Write to destination
        output.write(buffer);
        //Compact
        buffer.compact();
    }

    //In case we have remainder
    buffer.flip();
    while (buffer.hasRemaining()) {
        //Write to output
        output.write(buffer);
    }
}