Java 7 provides new NIO.2 (JSR 203) features. A dramatic change in Java as part of this NIO.2 inclusion is the availability of a new and more powerful Java File I/O API.

This article explores the I/O facilities provided by the Java platform by showing how the same techniques, classes, and data types used for reading and writing data to local file systems can be ...

To solve these problems, Java embraced a new approach to exception handling. In Java, we combine objects that describe exceptions with a mechanism based on throwing and catching these objects.

When an exception occurs in your Java code, you can log it or you can rethrow it -- but don't do both. Here's why you must avoid that exception handling antipattern.